Comment by kmeisthax

in re: "but the plagiarism"

As someone who thinks modern copyright law is unfit for purpose, and more specifically that software shouldn't be copyrightable at all, my main complaint about LLMs is the same as Chinese spying and IP theft: I only care because they don't share.

I'm perfectly fine using open-weights LLMs[0] to do things LLMs are good at. But I would never trust using OpenAI or Perplexity's SaaSS models as a replacement for my own skills. Half the reason they put things behind a server is so they can spy on you[1], the other half is so they can promise a revenue stream to the people they plan to sell the company to so they can enshittify it. The only enshittification-resistant software is software people can't charge you for.

All the other things this blog post is complaining about are real reactions to real harms, even in the FOSS community. People use LLMs as skilled labor substitute and get burned, while creating a spam problem for everyone else. In fact, that's the real replacement threat for artists: diffusion models don't so much outperform human artists as much as they convince people not to pay for art.

[0] I don't give two flying fucks about the license terms.

[1] The judge in the NYT lawsuit is even ordering spying for evidentiary reasons