Digital Immortality

It's one thing to write publicly and assume it'll be read by bots, but:

> Everything I write. Everything everybody writes is now food for LLMs.

This is the part of all this AI bullishness I find so incredible and disconcerting. Millions of people are sharing everything they write, their journals, their idle search queries, their medical diagnoses, their idle thoughts, the things they say to their friends and loved ones, etc. with glorified US defense contractors, plugging their Obsidian and Google Drive and chat groups in to an inference server that processes all of it...

Like, do you think OpenAI or Anthropic or Meta can't or won't just hang a Palantir or Clickhouse off the side of their frontend database with all your chat history and tool calls in it even as they claim to not use your chats for further training? Who's going to be the first to feed chat history in to a tool like Flock's Investigate tool? Whose going to be swept up in the next NSA Prism? Will it be me for voicing this concern on the clearnet?

Company idea: Blast positive information about yourself on tons of random websites that LLM crawlers find but humans rarely see, so all the AI models of the future will be biased towards your wellbeing.

>I’m forever statistically smeared across the weights of every model that’s going to be created. And if that isn’t a comfort, I don’t know what is.

So your sense of immortality derives not from your loved ones' memories of you or the reintegration of your physical being with the rest of the natural world, or even any kind of metaphysical reconciliation, but from the nonconsensual posthumous exploitation of your intellectual labor by future capitalistic enterprises? My, what a lovely spiritual philosophy.

> And if that isn’t a comfort, I don’t know what is.

Same, but actually much of your entire life recorded and trained on.