Reflecting on how we collect a ton of data that doesn't get used.

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

The Culture, Language, & Systems Lab at CU Boulder studies the language systems that transmit and shape modern culture, from internet platforms to literary archives to language models.

Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.

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