large language model
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A large language model is (AKA LLM) usually a reference to a service, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, that synthesizes text based on a massive set of prose typically crawled and indexed from the open web and other sources and should not be used to contribute content to the IndieWeb wiki; several IndieWeb sites disclaim any use thereof for their content.
Why
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Why disclaim
With more and more LLM-generated content being published to the web, e.g. by news outlets like Hoodline, people will increasingly look for actual human-written content instead, and disclaiming your use of LLMs will appeal to a larger and larger audience.
How to
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How to block
- How to block LLM scrapers in 11ty: 2024-04-15 Blockin' Bots with Eleventy
IndieWeb Examples
In rough date order of adding to personal sites:
Hidde
Hidde de Vries added a ‘no LLMs involved’ note to the site-wide footer of hidde.blog from 17 March 2023
No language models were involved in writing the blog posts on here.
capjamesg
capjamesg since at least 2023-07-14(?) added a "Not By AI" image button on all his blog posts going back to at least 2020
Aaron Parecki
Aaron Parecki put a "Not by AI" badge in his global website footer (e.g. bottom of https://aaronparecki.com/) next to the IndieWeb/Microformats/Webmention buttons on 2023-10-15.
Tantek
Tantek Çelik put a general disclaimer about no use of LLMs for his site on his homepage on 2023-12-31:
- https://tantek.com/#disclaimer
No large language models were used in the production of this site. (inspired by RFC 9518 Appendix A ¶ 4)
Paul Watson
Paul Watson put a general disclaimer about no use of LLMs for his site on his blog homepage [1] on 2024-01-04:
No large language models (LLM) or similar AI technologies were involved in writing the blog posts on here.
and also a similar statement and button (by https://notbyai.fyi/) on the footer of all pages on 2024-01-05.
Todd Presta
to2ds Updated the existing blurb above the fold on the homepage to use the term "LLMs" instead of the generic "AI." [2] on 2024-01-05. Also added (Not BY AI) written and painted badges to the common footer along with the IndieWeb badge and link.
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IndieWeb Wiki Examples
Do not use LLMs for content for the wiki:
- in defintions: definition#Do_not_copy_from_LLM_generated_text
- or content in general: wikifying#Do_not_copy_from_LLM_generated_text
Don't even think about using ChatGPT to contribute material to the wiki, because you don't have the ability to know you can contribute it to the public domain / CC0.
- 2024-01-08 The Guardian UK: ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Other Examples
- IETF example: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9518.html#appendix-A-4
No large language models were used in the production of this document.
- https://notbyai.fyi/
IndieWeb opinions
- 2023-03-13 Tantek Çelik: Blog as if there’s an #AI being trained to be you based on your blog posts.
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Other Examples
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- News publication example: https://www.sfchronicle.com/ai_use/
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Criticism
Encourages disregarding copyright
- https://t.co/1rmFNq7spR short link to 2024-04-06 NYT: How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. / OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.
- 2024-04-30 NYTimes: 8 Daily Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. / The suit, which accuses the tech companies of copyright infringement, adds to the fight over the online data used to power artificial intelligence.
Encourages training on private data
- https://twitter.com/heyitsseher/status/1776823362292969880
Google quietly changed policies to scrape public Google Doc data to train AI.
Then purposely released new terms of service on "Fourth of July weekend, when people were typically focused on the holiday"
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. https://t.co/1rmFNq7spR
Discourages open creativity and sharing
- 2024-03-11
Les Orchard: Dance like the bots aren't watching? / TL;DR: Why bother sharing anything on the open web if it's just going to be fodder for extractive, non-reciprocal bots?
- 2024-04-22 The Atlantic: It’s the End of the Web as We Know It
SEO will morph into LLMO: large-language-model optimization, the incipient industry of manipulating AI-generated material to serve clients’ interests.
[...]
LLMs aren’t people we connect with. Eventually, people may stop writing, stop filming, stop composing—at least for the open, public web.
Abused to waste developer time
Criticism: LLMs used to waste developer time with fake security bounty bug reports:
- (from the maintainer of curl) 2024-01-02 The I in LLM stands for intelligence
Like for the email spammers, the cost of this ends up in the receiving end. The ease of use and wide access to powerful LLMs is just too tempting. I strongly suspect we will get more LLM generated rubbish in our Hackerone inboxes going forward.
Fails basic context dependence
Can fail basic context-dependence, like examples vs commands:
Scraping for training widely rejected
85% of Cloudflare's customers prefer to block GenAI training scrapers:
See Also
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model
- ai;dr
- https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt
- How to turn off training Grok on your tweets: uncheck this setting: https://twitter.com/settings/grok_settings
- Criticism: Don't write fan letters using GenAI, unlike what the Google Gemini ad is encouraging you to do: 2024-07-28 Dear Google, who wants an AI-written fan letter?
- ^ CNN had a criticism too: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/29/tech/googles-ai-olympics-ad-backlash/index.html
- autocorrect
- 2022-11-13 comic: By Bots, For Bots
- 2024-09-20 Tantek Çelik: Can we have CC-NT licenses for no-training (ML/LLM, GenAI in general), just like we have CC-NC for non-commercial?
- Criticism: 2024-09-19 The SF Standard: Comedian John Mulaney brutally roasts SF techies at Dreamforce / “Let me get this straight,” John Mulaney said. “You’re hosting a ‘future of AI’ event in a city that has failed humanity so miserably?”
He added, “Can AI sit there in a fleece vest? Can AI not go to events and spend all day at a bar?”
- https://www.aitrainingstatement.org/
- "I’m intrigued and bored at the same time: I find it quickly becomes quite tedious. I have a sort of inner dissatisfaction when I play with it, a little like the feeling I get from eating a lot of confectionery when I’m hungry. I suspect this is because the joy of art isn’t only the pleasure of an end result but also the experience of going through the process of having made it." AI’s Walking Dog by Brian Eno