I think Data is too similar to being human to be mistaken for a clanker.

I think the real test will be if LLMs start acting like exocomps. I don’t think this is at all likely but I never would have predicted that LLMs could be as accurate as they are or have so many weird emergent phenomena.

A recurring criticism of Data’s art is that he could masterfully reproduce other works, but his creativity was limited to borrowing elements of other people’s art and recombining them. It’s why he is often told his art lacked soul. The advice his friends repeatedly give him is to try to use art to express himself as an individual, not to feed more works into an algorithm until he produces a better art slurry.

Let’s get one thing straight: generative AI is more like the Borg than it is like Data. Discarding humanity and individuality while assimilating everything within reach for the benefit of the corrupt hivemind. And why? Because resistance is futile?

Data, on the other hand is acting on his own preferences and agency. What he lacks is emotional content, and it’s what prevents him from creating the expressive art and music that he strives to make (as is a key theme in multiple episodes where data paints, does poetry, plays violin, etc.).

Did anybody promted data to do it?

or data did that on their own?

Data is not an LLM or a Slop generator, is an AGI.