12. Piles (w/ Alex Reisner)

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 theatlantic.com/author/alex-reisner, especially the phenomenal January 11 piece on "theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/cha…;

ALSO -- if you haven't -- submit to our call for papers on AI interfaces: link! (orpheusinstituut.be/en/news-and-events/call-fo…) We'd love to have you.