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 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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