currently, though, you're mostly trying to get scraped, so there are gaps between when you publish, when you enter the training set and how much the trainers value your input (ie slop vs unique)
once LLMs can modify their weights in real time, this will cease to matter
the 'allegory for prejudice' framing came way later
i accept that this allegory is the most popular way to do scifi robots now, but this is mostly because mass audiences are frankly not ready for the trippy searle/boltzmann/neumann stuff that animated asimov, clarke, gibson, etc
Robot personhood / rights is a sci-fi trope because it’s an obvious way to do a story about prejudice against other humans, but I wonder if it’s created a cultural expectation that this *has* to be a debate once you’ve invented robots you can talk to
people want jannies with robust moderation tooling and ideological dedication to their fiefdoms with a last-resort option to settle grievances (appeal to the emperor), but not have to work or pay for the creation of this system, and a perpetual liberum veto on the authority of the emperor
you can do this already, what people want is the frictionless UX and customer service of a megacorporation for-profit enterprise, with the first class right-of-exit of a scrappy, leftish-hacker, FOSS techstack
I increasingly think the subreddit model is the best conceptual way to structure a social media platform, even if actually existing Reddit I’m pretty meh about. You gotta let people enforce their own community norms, but those norms have to be opt-in
