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by infotainment 56 days ago
> built on massive exploitation of human labor and make profligate use of scarce resources

This kind of hyperbole repeated ad infinitum by haters online is not-constructive, IMO. I would be quite certain that the manufacture of whatever computing device the author is accessing the internet on used far more resources and exploited far more human labor than training an ML model ever did.

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Be that as it may, it is a quote from the “Statement on LLMs” at the bottom of the link.
Of course, which tells you the position from which the author of the linked post is arguing.
Mentioning facts is not constructive, interesting.

How constructive are ad hominem arguments?