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I agree with Richard. It is already the case that student essays done at home cannot be trusted for the…
What royalties are there in LLM training data? Your work becomes tokenized and flattened its not as though its possible…
FYI, this comment has been approved on TPM, as well as ones by Jason Stanley (the site lacks a spam…
In accusing me of a fondness for ad hominem arguments, Prof. Boghossian confuses a few distinct matters. There is nothing…
Boghossian writes: “What we need to do is to restore a conception of the justification of scholarly claims that is…
When I teach legal philosophy, I am teaching it to law students and graduate students (and an occasional undergraduate student).…
…which does seem far more plausible than the candidate successor.
(Regarding the Nietzsche quote which makes an amusing appearance near the end of Byrne’s essay: Nietzsche is obviously thinking of, among others, Kant, who finally confesses that the purpose of the critique of pure reason is to make room for faith.)
“That profits from LLMs are not socialised applies to most corporations. If that were a reason for not engaging with…