Guardian Media Group today announced a strategic partnership with Open AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and deployment, that will bring the Guardian’s high quality journalism to ChatGPT’s global users…
Yeah, no. Subscription cancelled, and I told them why.
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3 responses to “Nope.”
Suspect you know more about this and this informs your worries. Can you share what you wrote to them to help my understanding?
Simply that I was disappointed they chose to partner with and feature a technology that is actively making the world worse. The environmental impacts of these Large Language Models are horrendous – though the recent Chinese DeepSeek model is somewhat better – and they were trained on stolen and pirated material. They’re also bullshit generators, and The Guardian knows it.
Thanks Kris. Didn’t know about the environmental stuff, thanks for that.