Comment by ttiurani

6 days ago

"You don’t believe in IPR. Then shut the fuck up about IPR."

As a software engineer, I need to call out this rhetoric. We are not all morally bankrupt. Many of the people with the most ethical backbone I know are also software engineers.

I don't use "AI" for the same reason I don't use amphetamine. I'm sure I could get stuff more stuff done faster if I used it, but I don't, because the manufacturing and the distribution of it is completely unethical.

The blatant stealing of intellectual property is only the tip of the shitberg. As bad are the giant ecological footprint[1], the colonialism of the grossly underpaid RLHF, and the conceding of even more of our digital lives to trillion dollar corporations.

We can and must ethically evaluate our work, and that includes our tools. Nobody's perfect, but doing one immoral thing does not mean you get a free pass to skip morality altogether.