On 01/11/2025 15:38, Yeddanapudi Radhika via Silklist wrote:
Hi all,I'll admit being a layperson at the outset and that I'm trying to understand why AI should be allowed to "just look" at the contents of my website or its source code if I don't want to participate in its growth.
Yeah, I'd say this license doesn't have to have a specific *goal*, as opposed to being a tool for people with various goals - from people who think AI in general is bad, people who don't dislike AI but think current AI companies are bad, people who specifically worry that AI will be trained on their works and then used to replace their creative output, etc.
I'm one of four translators on a panel about the value of collaboration versus AI in translation at the International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico in late November. So I really would appreciate any suggestions for reading material.
Cool! My aunt (Barbara Snell) worked at Xerox as a technical translator (for their manuals and things) in the 1970s and 80s, which was originally all done with typewriters and carbon paper - until they gave her the manual for an early electronic word processor to translate... And she want back to the bosses and said "Hey, if we had some of these we'd save a lot of time re-typing pages to rephrase something", and apparently it took a lot of arguing with the management, but she and her team eventually got word processors - which got her interested in computers, and how they could help with translation, and led to her being a big proponent of machine translation technology, and driving Xerox to be leaders in the field for a while!
She's still alive, but pretty deep into dementia these days, which is a shame as most of what she did is so pre-Internet that it's only fleetingly documented. I just get little traces like these:
https://mt-archive.net/70/IncLinguist-1981-Snell.pdf https://www.emerald.com/ajim/article-abstract/33/7/265/51205/Introduction-Help-from-the-computer?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://vufind.lboro.ac.uk/Record/218421 I'm not sure what she'd make of the current world of LLMs, though... -- Alaric Snell-Pym (M0KTN neé M7KIT) http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/
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