Denial

April 9, 2025

When we talk about the unfair practices and harm done by training large language models, we usually talk about it in the past tense: how they were trained on other people’s creative work without permission. But this is an ongoing problem that’s just getting worse.

The worst of the internet is continuously attacking the best of the internet. This is a distributed denial of service attack on the good parts of the World Wide Web.

Source: Adactio: Journal—Denial

While it’s very clear we’re positive about the impact of LLMs on software development, we entirely share Jeremy’s position here.

As Ted Chiang observes, “Fears of Technology Are Fears of Capitalism“.