What Kevin Kelly thinks about LLMs

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Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.

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1. 7 Sept 2026

   Our readingA neural network's latent space is closer to an uncopyrightable syntax than to copyrightable expression.

   neural networks

   Their wordsThe latent spaces of an LLM are closer to something like a syntax which is not copyrightable.

   ↗Arguments in Favor of AI Fair Usekk.org 1st of 3 in this piece

3. 7 Sept 2026

   Our readingAs AI models keep scaling up, the value of any single training source keeps shrinking.

   Their wordsAs LLMs continue to scale up, the value of any particular source continues to diminish.

   ↗Arguments in Favor of AI Fair Usekk.org 2nd of 3 in this piece