When is it okay to train a LLM on scraped data? Robin Sloan: If an AI appli­ca­tion delivers some pro­found public good, or even if it might, it’s prob­ably okay that its value is rooted in this unprece­dented oper­a­tional­iza­tion of the com­mons. If an AI appli­ca­tion simply repli­cates Every­thing, it’s prob­ably not okay. […] I […]