They were not talking about LLMs being participants of anything, but people who are against LLMs in whatever capacity. Surely people can be participants of a movement.

>> All I can say to this is that my position is Large Language Models (LLM's) are a combination of algorithms and data.

>> As as such, for me they do not qualify as anything to be either "pro" or "anti", let alone a participant of an activist movement.

> They were not talking about LLMs being participants of anything ...

Clearly I was referencing LLM's being something to foment "an activist movement" in an attempt to de-escalate the implication of there being some kind of "anti-LLM activist movement."

> ... but people who are against LLMs in whatever capacity. Surely people can be participants of a movement.

At this point your replies to my posts appear to be intentionally adversarial.

> Clearly I was referencing LLM's being something to foment "an activist movement" in an attempt to de-escalate the implication of there being some kind of "anti-LLM activist movement."

Well, no, that really wasn't clear to me at all. I don't think it was clear in general either.

> At this point your replies to my posts appear to be intentionally adversarial.

Not my actual intention, apologies, although I 100% understand if at this point that is not at all believable.

> in an attempt to de-escalate the implication of there being some kind of "anti-LLM activist movement."

Are you trying to imply that there isn't an anti-LLM activist movement? There certainly is

you can just google it

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=anti%20llm%20activist%...

a subreddit dedicated to the anti-AI movement

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/

"what is the goal of the so-called anti-ai movement"

https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/comments/1mn3hh8/what_is_the...

"how do we build an anti-ai movement"

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtistHate/comments/1hk3wuj/how_do_...

"The New Luddites Aren’t Backing Down

Activists are organizing to combat generative AI and other technologies—and reclaiming a misunderstood label in the process."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/new-l...

"Anti-AI Explained: Why Resistance to Artificial Intelligence Is Growing

As AI tools become more advanced, a growing chorus of critics is raising alarms about job loss, misinformation and other societal risks. Learn what’s fueling the anti-AI movement."

https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/anti-ai

"together against AI"

https://togetheragainstai.com/

and on and on

I invite people to become familiar with the movement and their arguments and compare them to the Gentoo rationale.