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Re:The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open source language model... by idle_zealot on Thursday March 07, 2024 @02:52PM (#39633823)
Call me an idealist but I don't think humans should be spending their time on jobs a computer can do.

The solution to wealth disparity cannot include "invent menial untalented high-paying labor for people to do".

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Re:The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open source language model... by __loam on Thursday March 07, 2024 @04:56PM (#39635039)
Yeah why should humans do bothersome labor like...creating literature?
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Re:The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open source language model... by fennecfoxy on Friday March 08, 2024 @06:08AM (#39639969)
You're romanticising the creation of literature for some reason.

There's no difference between a machine replacing a human writing a book and a machine replacing a human making a piece of wooden furniture. Literature and craftwork are equally rewarding and beneficial imo.

And people still make wooden furniture by hand even after IKEA. If someone wants cheap and uninteresting they'll buy IKEA, if someone wants an interesting and unique piece, or to support handmade things then they'll buy from a woodworker.

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