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💳 Who should decide what content is acceptable online? Banks?
In TRANSACTION DENIED, author Rainey Reitman joins Annalee Newitz to discuss why content moderation decisions shouldn't be made by financial institutions. 💵💷💴
As banks, payment processors, and credit card networks gain influence over who can participate online, questions of speech become questions of financial power. ⚖️
🎧 Listen & subscribe to the Future Knowledge #podcast ⤵️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/transaction-denied
The #LLM approach to #AI is famous for needing vast amounts of data. Web programming is where LLMs excel because #bots can scrape all the websites out there, on top of ingesting all the code in #GitHub, etc. This vast pool of web code that has fed the big AI companies #models includes the 95% of startups that have failed, the supply chain #security nightmare that is #npm, and other gems. For other key dev platforms, there isn't this vast pool available to LLMs