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"In Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” he satirized politicians who were out
of touch and were treating the poor as an inconvenience, rather than a sign of
human suffering and misery. So, he took what seemed like two big problems,
according to those politicians, and came up with an obviously barbaric solution
to solve both problems: by letting the poor sell their kids as food. This
really only was designed to highlight the barbaric framing of the “problem” by
the Irish elite.
But, sometimes, there really are scenarios where there are two very real
problems (not of a Swiftian nature) that might actually be in a position to be
combined such that both problems are actually solved. And thus I present a
non-Swiftian modest proposal: that AI companies desperate for high quality
content should create funds to pay for journalists to create high quality
content that the AI companies can use for training."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
