Yes, that’s right. And that’s exactly why he’s climbing the career ladder. That’s how it is in a country ruled by criminals.

The U.S. legal system is just as unlikely to hold him accountable as the administration, because it is so corrupt that it not only fails to fulfill its purpose but serves as a tool for these criminals to secure their power indefinitely. Another example of this is the Epstein case.

This system is obviously beyond repair. Yet it will continue this way, because U.S. citizens aren’t doing anything about it.

It doesn’t matter that you’re not a scientist. Your approach is still interesting - and yes: maybe it will inspire people or even spur research on these topics. I’m keeping my fingers crossed!

That is true, of course, but LLMs, image and video generation, and so on, will, in my view, lead to fewer and fewer people being willing to publish their creative works, because the staggering output of AI models will not only make it increasingly unlikely that they will receive compensation for their work, but also that they will receive recognition for it.

As a result, I think, there will likely be fewer and fewer people willing to accept that their work is being used for free to train precisely those models from which only the people who steal their work benefit - without this theft, the business model of OpenAI and the like simply cannot function.

In my view, this will sooner or later lead to a vicious cycle in which the models are trained predominantly only with content they have generated themselves. This will then lead to a stagnation of what we understand as culture - for these models are neither creative nor intelligent: they can merely combine existing content to create something that appears new; however, they cannot produce anything truly new. Nevertheless, given its ever-expanding reach, it will likely be this repetitive AI output that has a significant influence on popular culture, at the very least.

That sounds very interesting - please keep us posted.

I think it’s very important to examine the effects of LLMs on society, how they influence discourse, their impact on the formation of public opinion, and the question of whether - and if so, to what extent - they shift the interpretation of words and narratives toward the few corporations that offer cloud models, and so on.

This is a broad field, but one that strikes me as quite important from a wide variety of perspectives.

It’s good to hear that there are people here who are looking into this from a scientific standpoint. I’d be very happy if you could update us on the state of research from time to time.

The more perspectives there are on this topic, the better.

But…

Yes, that’s probably how it will go.

Culture will likely always exist, but unfortunately it’s now increasingly competing with an even more massive, uniform, and uncreative flood of commercial bullshit.

I fear this will have a disastrous effect. The early signs are already very clear: misinformation on a massive scale, the centralization of “interpretive authority” in the hands of just a few, very powerful companies, and so on.

It’s not as if the internet wasn’t already full of what you might call products of the culture industry, but now these products aren’t even produced by people anymore -instead they’re churned out automatically in an all-consuming flood of mediocrity.

I’m aware of that - unfortunately.

I meant that ironically, since Germany, of all countries, has a history marked by totalitarian surveillance and oppression due to its Nazi past.

What is happening in the U.S. and what Palantir stands for bears a striking resemblance to the strategies of the Nazis during the Third Reich.

This makes it all the more alarming that even the Germans have clearly learned nothing from history and now want to engage in baseless mass surveillance once again - and to do so, of all things, with Palantir, a dystopian tech giant owned by a self-confessed fascist and enemy of democracy.

AI is a new way of combining what already exists. Moreover, these models serve as a tool of power for those who are already powerful.

“AI is good” is not a coherent argument.

The entertainment industry is obviously just one simple example.

The reason I mention this example is that you’ll have a hard time defining what culture is - and, consequently, why it makes sense to preserve it.

Attempting to engage in such a discussion on a social media platform is doomed to fail from the start.

I had assumed that what I mean would be clear enough. That’s why I included the comparison with climate change in the description.

I have no idea what you’re getting at, but it’s a fact that every minute - if not every second - AI-generated content is being published that you could never read in your entire lifetime.

That’s the scale we’re talking about.

Try to imagine what that might mean for people who make a living doing anything that could even remotely be called creative work.

I’m afraid it’s true this time. You do know how LLMs work, don’t you?

Edit: And you do have at least some idea of how the entertainment industry works, right?

Just a quick aside on this: ICE’s budget exceeds that of all other federal agencies combined (their budget is equivalent to the military spending of a medium-sized country). For obvious reasons, this “agency” is likely also Palantir’s biggest source of revenue.

I wonder if that’s a secret police force? I’m from Germany, though - and hey, what do I know about it…

I see, so the Meta employees have the typical conservative mindset: any misdeed is perfectly fine as long as it doesn’t affect you personally.

That’s what I thought - it’s probably not just the employees of social media companies who feel this way, but also those at Palantir and similar. Not to mention the “defense” contractors and the like.

I really wonder how these people can still look at themselves in the mirror.

Yes, it’s so obvious by now that even the Maga morons might be able to understand it.

And yet this is nothing new: The U.S. has been an oligarchy for at least thirty years or more, as evidenced, for example, by the fact that many, many people in the richest country in the world live as if they were citizens of one of the poorest Third World countries.

It’s unbelievable how absurd a country can be.

Well, I’d welcome having the UK back, because we’re a geographical and cultural community.

It’s great that the fascists in the US, with their narcissistic delusions of grandeur, are now making it so clear that this messed-up country will never be even a halfway reliable partner.

It’s just a shame that this detour into an imaginary history, in which the UK is still a world-dominating power all on its own, was of course nothing but the same mindless illusion that is now hastening the end of the US as a superpower. That could easily have been predicted.

But hey, at least it’s clear now that the Brexit was a very bad idea. Seriously, just think about the cost of this unnecessary escapade. So much good could have been done with those resources.

I’m afraid the UK hasn’t done itself any favors with this, especially since all the special terms that were available within the EU at the time will likely never be offered again in that form.

What’s with these headlines? This is already the third article pretending that something has changed: Live Nation still has a monopoly and, of course, isn’t going to change its business practices.

This ruling doesn’t change a thing.

The bottom line is this:

… it could cost Live Nation hundreds of millions of dollars and perhaps force the company to sell some of its concert venues when the judge hands out penalties later.

In a country like the U.S., where the legal system is rotten to the core, that will never happen. The behemoth won’t be taken down; instead, there will be a ridiculously small fine that bears no relation to the profits Live Nation makes by having no competition whatsoever.

Even if the judge were brave enough to order the breakup of this cartel, a small “donation” to the criminals in the White House would be enough to sweep the matter under the rug.

Headlines like these suggest that there is a chance for justice in the U.S. system - but that is simply not the case. It is always and exclusively the billionaires who win. That’s as sure as death and taxes.

They ran a monopoly? They’re still doing that, aren’t they?

Yes, exactly that.