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Just want to say that I'm not going to touch any AI tools until the legalities are ironed out, and I absolutely won't be using it at work without very clear app
by ilovecaching 4y ago
Just want to say that I'm not going to touch any AI tools until the legalities are ironed out, and I absolutely won't be using it at work without very clear approval. AI poses a huge risk to businesses as programmers start feeding code into other companies backends without thinking and pulling out random snippets from projects with varying licenses.
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoSo AI products can only be developed in AI friendly legal areas? Similar to cloning and stem cell research?
- w0m 4y agos/developed/used/ I think is more the comment. OrgA will be 'all in' with the convenience of Copilot; OrgB will flee due to legality/litigious concerns.
- ilovecaching 4y agoI never said anything about AI development.
- Cloudef 4y agoIgnoring AI tools is very shortsighted IMO
- jay-barronville 4y agoBeyond shortsighted.
- roflyear 4y agoWhat's beyond shortsighted? What would you call that?
- ilovecaching 4y agoBeing cautious in order to keep one's IP and job safe during an economic downturn isn't shortsighted, it's playing the long game. AI isn't going anywhere, and waiting and seeing how the legalities shake out and how companies will want to consume this internally is the smart play. Jumping onto a new technology with unknown risks and getting burned is shortsighted.
- JonAtkinson 4y agoThe "long game" becomes short if your organisation is out-executed by a competitor who isn't as conservative in approach.
- namaria 4y agoThen I get home and think: how come we're collectively killing the biome that sustains us and degrading its ability to nurture human civilization? Then I remember I need to race to the bottom with everyone else to get that cash son!
- JonAtkinson 4y agoIt's the reality of the marketplace. I'd like to change it too.
- namaria 4y agoYou'd like to or you're going to?
- ilovecaching 4y agoI'm not sure what company you're working for where generating code that may or may not be correct and needs careful analysis is somehow increasing your coding velocity to the point where it's trumping higher level thinking or protecting your IP or not getting into expensive lawsuits. I would like to hear more.
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- mrleinad 4y agoHe's just saying he won't share the codebase owned by the company he works for on a 3rd party platform without explicit approval from whomever owns it, and he won't just willy-nilly copy-paste snippets from the AI onto said codebase without properly vetting them. He didn't say anything about ignoring AI. Pretty reasonable if you ask me.
- reisender 4y agoYou are spot on with the work comment. Posting IP you do not own to a service you may not be permitted to use is a bad idea.
- swader999 4y agoIf you've reduced your code base to vector weights and that's all you send to an api, I wonder how much you'd mitigate this concern?
- asteroidz 4y agoWise decision as far as I'm concerned. Unfettered AI experiments on production systems are an IP and (depending on your field) regulatory nightmare waiting to happen. Unless you have lawyer-vetted guidelines and oversight, use OpenAI products exclusively for experiments and personal projects.