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I'm not mad about it. Have at. Certainly AI can only benefit from my deep insights and hard-earned wisdom. I can see why some people are mad, though.

by gAI 3y ago

palata 3y ago
Are you writing content (like a blog)? Would you be fine if another website copied your blog without giving attribution, and people read from that one instead? Would you still write blog posts if people read a modified version of them through some AI system without ever knowing about what you wrote? Are you writing open source code? Would you still make it open source if people never saw it as "your" code, but instead paid an AI company to access your knowledge? Are you getting those strange internet points by answering StackOverflow questions? Will you still do it if people stop seeing the answers you redacted (and voting for them)? If it goes there, I will stop blogging, stackoverflow and open sourcing. And everything else that I do for free, just for the satisfaction of getting a "thank you" from a human from time to time. If AI wants to make me disappear, I will disappear.
- gAI 3y ago
  I wouldn't mind if this encouraged us to get offline and invest more time and attention in our local communities. I'm ready for the Star Trek future where we don't have jobs, and we do things for their inherent merit.
- Gigachad 3y ago
  Would I get mad if someone read my blog, learned things, and then wrote their own blog using some of these ideas? No.
  - palata 3y ago
    But that someone won't read your blog anymore, they will read a modified version on some AI frontend. Maybe modified in a way that alters your meaning. So not only you won't get any kind of attribution ("look how clever the AI is, it just learned the world and explained this to me"), but possibly your point won't get through the way you intended it.
    - Gigachad 3y ago
      What some LLM spits out is not my post anymore. My post is still correct and as intended. Someone could read my post and retell their own version at the pub, that fine, it's their version.
      - palata 3y ago
        But the LLM won't say "please be careful, this is a modified version of Gigachad's post that you can read at <link>", will it? Don't you see a difference between 1) a human reading your blog post, understanding it, making their own opinion, and then sharing it under their name and 2) a machine taking your blog post as an input and distributing a modified version of it? Let's take two examples: First example: I create a blog that copy-pastes your posts to the word, but I don't give any kind of attribution, and I get money from it. Would you be fine with that, or would you consider that I should not be able to do it, because I am basically selling your copyrighted work without authorization? Second example: I do exactly the same as above, but I have a small script that will replace some words with synonyms. Is it now better than the previous example? Where do you put the limit? If the script is so good that you can't recognize your post anymore, then you find it okay? But that's still an automated script that just duplicates your blog and benefits from it, right?

I'm not mad about it. Have at. Certainly AI can only benefit from my deep insights and hard-earned wisdom. I can see why some people are mad, though.

by gAI 3y ago

I'm not mad about it. Have at. Certainly AI can only benefit from my deep insights and hard-earned wisdom. I can see why some people are mad, though.

palata 3y ago

Are you writing content (like a blog)? Would you be fine if another website copied your blog without giving attribution, and people read from that one instead? Would you still write blog posts if people read a modified version of them through some AI system without ever knowing about what you wrote? Are you writing open source code? Would you still make it open source if people never saw it as "your" code, but instead paid an AI company to access your knowledge? Are you getting those strange internet points by answering StackOverflow questions? Will you still do it if people stop seeing the answers you redacted (and voting for them)? If it goes there, I will stop blogging, stackoverflow and open sourcing. And everything else that I do for free, just for the satisfaction of getting a "thank you" from a human from time to time. If AI wants to make me disappear, I will disappear.

gAI 3y ago
I wouldn't mind if this encouraged us to get offline and invest more time and attention in our local communities. I'm ready for the Star Trek future where we don't have jobs, and we do things for their inherent merit.
Gigachad 3y ago
Would I get mad if someone read my blog, learned things, and then wrote their own blog using some of these ideas? No.
- palata 3y ago
  But that someone won't read your blog anymore, they will read a modified version on some AI frontend. Maybe modified in a way that alters your meaning. So not only you won't get any kind of attribution ("look how clever the AI is, it just learned the world and explained this to me"), but possibly your point won't get through the way you intended it.
  - Gigachad 3y ago
    What some LLM spits out is not my post anymore. My post is still correct and as intended. Someone could read my post and retell their own version at the pub, that fine, it's their version.
    - palata 3y ago
      But the LLM won't say "please be careful, this is a modified version of Gigachad's post that you can read at <link>", will it? Don't you see a difference between 1) a human reading your blog post, understanding it, making their own opinion, and then sharing it under their name and 2) a machine taking your blog post as an input and distributing a modified version of it? Let's take two examples: First example: I create a blog that copy-pastes your posts to the word, but I don't give any kind of attribution, and I get money from it. Would you be fine with that, or would you consider that I should not be able to do it, because I am basically selling your copyrighted work without authorization? Second example: I do exactly the same as above, but I have a small script that will replace some words with synonyms. Is it now better than the previous example? Where do you put the limit? If the script is so good that you can't recognize your post anymore, then you find it okay? But that's still an automated script that just duplicates your blog and benefits from it, right?