but can certainly happen at more local levels and in the rest of the world.
Although it seems like federal governments, particularly Canada's, loves AI and data centres, I remain hopeful seeing people stand up against unregulated AI and the construction of these data centres. It reinforces that action does matter, it is not futile, and any positive shift can be substantial.
These bots are scouring their sites for every available bit of content, scraping all of it up to feed their LLMs, and then making summaries of that content available to users
This is kind of terrifying for me in the context of education. With all the information compiled and summarized by an LLM, there is a lot of convenience that comes with that, but the price is that now teaching that skill is going to pose a lot of challenges. Not to mention the countless artists who get their hard work stolen from them to train LLMs, only to have their own work spat out in the form of slop.
even small individual actions can get institutions to change course.
I really resonate with the sentiment that actions can make a difference in the course we make in the future. All the tech overlords and Big Capitalists want us to believe that we can't avoid inevitable disaster, we are going to get left behind if we don't embrace technology, and there is nothing we can do as people. but that is simply never true! Standing up and resisting "bad AI" enables the people around to do the same, and every individual action adds up.