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Letting trillion-dollar companies freely grind up the collective creative output of planet earth into digital meat slurry to fuel automatic content-generators s
by causi 4y ago
Letting trillion-dollar companies freely grind up the collective creative output of planet earth into digital meat slurry to fuel automatic content-generators seems like a bad thing.
- tannhaeuser 4y agoAnd letting them do this by exposing your minute code edits in response to issues as a developer to make your job eventually redundant and have it taken over by ML seems like a worse thing even.
- wizzwizz4 4y ago> to make your job eventually redundant and have it taken over by ML This will last until the programmers run out. These systems will have a bad time writing in any language they haven't got extensive training data in.
- CuriouslyC 4y agoSoftware is only going to become more ubiquitous, programmers won't run out, they'll just shift up to higher level abstractions and more diagnostic/administrative work. Think "AI doctor" and "AI manager" rather than code slinger.
- mirekrusin 4y agoAI taking jobs is not an argument. License violation is.
- sharperguy 4y agoWould be nice if they released the model, stable diffusion style. In fact, this kind of legal action could prevent disclosure of any AI models in the future.
- PoignardAzur 4y ago> Letting trillion-dollar companies freely grind up the collective creative output of planet earth into digital meat slurry to fuel automatic content-generators seems like a bad thing. The description is pretty loaded, though. "Grind up" evokes Microsoft taking away the creative output and destroying it forever to create an inferior product. When in fact, the original code is still here, you just also have a smart auto-completion tool built with it. Yes, there are concerns about license laundering and corporations taking advantage of open-source code without contributing to it, but these concerns are a lot more subtle and nuanced than "megacorporations are grinding up the collective output of the planet into slurry". My hot take: piracy everywhere, and screw intellectual property. It does more good for the world if anyone is allowed to build upon what anyone else has done before without having to ask for permission first, even if it makes monetization harder.
- CuriouslyC 4y agoCopyright is indeed pretty fucked. Megacorps repackaging and selling products created by indies is also pretty fucked. I'm pro "freedom of information" but we need laws around the sale of information to prevent that sort of thing.