12. Piles (w/ Alex Reisner)

Episode 12 of the Disintegrator podcast, hosted by Roberto Alonso Trillo, Marek Poliks, and Helena McFadzean, titled "12. Piles (w/ Alex Reisner)" was published on April 30, 2024 and runs 40 minutes.

April 30, 2024 ·40m · Disintegrator

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Alex Reisner's writing in the Atlantic is some of the best investigative coverage of Large Language Models out there. In this episode, we talk through the mind-bogglingly vast archives of random pirated material that provide every major commercial LLMs with their linguistic faculty. Definitely check out his writing on https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alex-reisner/, especially the phenomenal January 11 piece on "memorization."ALSO -- if you haven't -- submit to our call for papers on AI interfaces: link! We'd love to have you.

Episode Description

Alex Reisner's writing in the Atlantic is some of the best investigative coverage of Large Language Models out there. In this episode, we talk through the mind-bogglingly vast archives of random pirated material that provide every major commercial LLMs with their linguistic faculty.

Definitely check out his writing on https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alex-reisner/, especially the phenomenal January 11 piece on "memorization."

ALSO -- if you haven't -- submit to our call for papers on AI interfaces: link! We'd love to have you.

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