Isabelle Levent
@isabellelevent
Isabelle Levent
@isabellelevent

Many methods for creating these models don't (and to be honest can't) attach the name, website and other details of every image and piece of text used to a create a new image in the metadata to every step of the process.
on metaphors for LLMs
In the course of a year, the tech industry’s dreary post-social, post-crypto interregnum was rapidly supplanted — largely as the result of public-facing efforts by OpenAI, which is reportedly in talks with Microsoft about a potential $10 billion investment — by a story about inevitable technologies that are so transformative, so incomprehensibl
... See moreIt becomes a question of who created a certain work of art.

Creativity is the ability to come up with ideas or artefacts that are new , surprising , and valuable .
Like oil and land, data are a common that is commodified by private actors for profits. The commons being commodified is our essence as humans: our interactions with society at large.
the reconfiguration of culture as a domain of not just human-made meanings but also machinic calculation