Nicely put. I'm surprised the link between AI and imperialism is not more frequently made. I grew up believing that the British installed railways in India for the benefit of Indians; only later in life did I learn they were used to systematically loot the country. An LLM 'training' on copyrighted materials is - to my mind - looting. Of course, those with wealth have more means to defend themselves from looting.
Yes, this is also a key issue. And kind of wild that some of these designs may be trained on looted images from museums that themselves looted the objects on display. Looting all the way down!
Nicely put. I'm surprised the link between AI and imperialism is not more frequently made. I grew up believing that the British installed railways in India for the benefit of Indians; only later in life did I learn they were used to systematically loot the country. An LLM 'training' on copyrighted materials is - to my mind - looting. Of course, those with wealth have more means to defend themselves from looting.
Yes, this is also a key issue. And kind of wild that some of these designs may be trained on looted images from museums that themselves looted the objects on display. Looting all the way down!
Indeed, with even the word 'loot' looted from India!