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There is something to be said about how dangerous it is to offload your entire workflow to entities that you are competing with. Or have unpredictable morals.
by cuddlyogre 4y ago
There is something to be said about how dangerous it is to offload your entire workflow to entities that you are competing with. Or have unpredictable morals.
Say you start relying on some AI to build all your applications or generate all of your art, or copy. What if you start developing something that competes with the business interests of the entity that owns the AI? At that point, that entity is incentivized to lock you out of their system, leaving you with a project that cannot be finished because no one in your organization knows how to develop that kind of project.
Or, say you are developing an application that helps some marginalized group or is working to expose some kind of corruption. But, as it turns out, the owner of the AI profits from that marginalization or corruption in some way. So they lock you out and blacklist you in some way.
When it is all said and done, AI will be owned and operated by the same people that own everything else in the tech industry - Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple. Are you really content with only being allowed to express yourself in the way they deem appropriate?
- ngngngng 4y ago> There is something to be said about how dangerous it is to offload your entire workflow to entities that you are competing with. Or have unpredictable morals. Yep, this is why I stopped using Github Copilot. But now we're at the point where if I don't use it I'm going to be far less productive than my coworkers. I'm forced to use this thing that I truly believe is going to take my job within 5-10 years max.
- cuddlyogre 4y agoI just can't wrap my head around the time saving thing. Do your coworkers really understand what it is that they are putting into the codebase? If not, that's terrifying and recipe for disaster. If they do understand it, they have to be taking the time to review it to ensure is right. Which cannot save so much more time that it's worth the risk.