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i doubt it. it's easy to draw an analogy to early cars, or any kind of tech. revolution and say: "ahah, these folks are just like the Luddites, pbththth" this
by fargle 2y ago
i doubt it. it's easy to draw an analogy to early cars, or any kind of tech. revolution and say: "ahah, these folks are just like the Luddites, pbththth"
this is fundamentally different. this is a machine, a mathematical equation, that converts enormous amounts of history and facts into a facsimile of creation, thought, expression. it does it convincingly in very small doses, but it doesn't do it all that well. unless your task is to regurgitate something relatively mechanical.
a car was something new. a mechanical horse. it wasn't some distillation and averaging of every extant horse into some "perfect" mutant horse. it was genuinely new. it also wasn't a mirage or a hallucination.
AI is not a creative force, rather reductive. it's at best a tool. so if you want to copyright something or you want to contribute to NetBSD, sure, that's fine. but copy-paste of someone else? no matter what the underlying process, it's still wrong.
- lxe 2y agoIt’s a tool. Just like a car. Not some poetic philosophy construct. Don’t overthink it.
- fargle 2y agobut it's a tool for stealing other's IP, not for noisily scooting from place to place it's not Luddite behavior for saying "no, we don't want to do that"
- lxe 2y agoHN: Aaron Swartz is a hero and all knowledge should be free! Also HN: AI is evil because it's stealing copyrighted works!
- fargle 2y agome: Aaron Swartz is a dick and shouldn't have deprived us of himself and vice versa. he'd have been a free man 10 years ago. (not judging, just sad) also me: AI is evil because it tricks people into giving up their creativity, which isn't the boring part, it's the real part also also me: wtf? why bring that up?
- yareal 2y agoHey now, the Luddites were not anti technology! They were highly skilled laborers who wanted to combine their expertise with the autoloom to increase overall throughput and split those gains with the factory owners. The factory owners said, "lol, nah" and fired them all to hire cheaper labor to run the autolooms so they could keep the increase in profitability to themselves. The Luddites were rightfully pissed and wrecked shit. The factory owners, had they been less greedy, could have kept the Luddites on board.