Whoever Controls Language Models Controls Politics – HANNES BAJOHR

The problem with large language models is not technical, but political: It is that the medium of politics – language – is privatized.

Whoever Controls Language Models Controls Politics – HANNES BAJOHR Whoever Controls Language Models Controls Politics (Image: Vecteezy.com, free license.) This text appeared in an updated and extended version in print . You can download the essay here. Thanks to João Ribeiro and shifter.pt, this text is now also available in Portuguese . A German version appeared in Neue Zürcher Zeitung. You can also read it here. The world of artificial intelligence thinks both big and simple at the same time – and has done so from the very beginning. When the workshop that launched the concept as well

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