A machine that gentrifies the English language

Robert Kingett was in a writing group when he realised what LLM vendors do is to gentrify our imagination and our language:

So the Tech Bros, in their infinite mediocrity, decided to bypass the human element entirely. They built a machine that scrapes our work—our pain, our joy, our very souls—without consent, grinds it into a mathematical slurry, and extrudes it as a flavorless, inoffensive paste that can be sold by the bucket.

They built a machine to gentrify the English language.

And the horror of watching my friend lose his soul almost eats me alive.

(From: The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles)

(via Matthias Ott)

Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He currently works on accessibility standards for the Dutch government (views his own) and is in the W3C's AB. Previously, he worked for Mozilla, W3C/WAI, national and local governments, Sanoma Learning and others as a freelancer. Hidde is a public speaker (all 82 talks). In his free time, he works on a coffee table book covering the video conferencing apps of our decade.

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