Kate Crawford does a far better job than I can of explaining why merely amortizing ...

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Kate Crawford does a far better job than I can of explaining why merely amortizing model training costs doesn't make the negative externalities go away. https://katecrawford.net/atlas We all know what one of the negative externalities of Uber ended up being and it was particularly dehumanizing and insidious. LLM mis-selling is no different.

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