#LLMs are a fucking scourge. Perceiving their training infrastructure as anything but a horrific all-consuming parasite destroying the internet (and wasting real-life resources at a grand scale) is delusional.

#ChatGPT isn't a fun toy or a useful tool, it's a _someone else's_ utility built with complete disregard for human creativity and craft, mixed with malicious intent masquerading as "progress", and should be treated as such.

Fediverse images & #alttext will certainly be scraped by groups to train their AIs on image-text correspondence. I'm sure it will be happening already. (Yes, many tools can already generate crappy alttext, but high-quality paired data is *valuable* in ML.) Thanks to the precedent set by #commoncrawl and #LLMs, our copyrights and licence terms will be ignored even when explicitly asserted. Case law is not strong enough (nor international).