A commons approach to LLMs
Yesterday, two of my favourite bloggers go into a spat on Mastodon: @tante accused Cory Doctrow of 'straw-manning' the anti-slop/Luddite movement in a blog . Later that day, after a 'that escalated quickly' argument that is usually reserved for x.com, tante published another blog to address the reactions to the original piece. At first glance, this looks like a ' straw-motte ' discussion - a bait-and-switch tactic that content creators use to capture attention: accusing an offside remark of being a straw man, then building an stone-clad counter argument (a motte), which is then accused by the original party of being a straw man, countered with a motte, which is a straw man, etc. ad-infinitum. But on closer inspection, it turned out that there was quite a nuanced discussion going on - that is, beside the usual flame war. The discussion went as follows: Doctrow mentioned in a blog that he uses an LLM to clean up his content. In the blog...