Comment by layoric

> Some of the smartest people I know share a bone-deep belief that AI is a fad — the next iteration of NFT mania.

> Meanwhile, software developers spot code fragments seemingly lifted from public repositories on Github and lose their shit. What about the licensing? If you’re a lawyer, I defer. But if you’re a software developer playing this card? Cut me a little slack as I ask you to shove this concern up your ass. No profession has demonstrated more contempt for intellectual property.

> The median dev thinks Star Wars and Daft Punk are a public commons. The great cultural project of developers has been opposing any protection that might inconvenience a monetizable media-sharing site. When they fail at policy, they route around it with coercion. They stand up global-scale piracy networks and sneer at anybody who so much as tries to preserve a new-release window for a TV show.

So it starts with a humble strawman, and then the author illustrates how dumb they think their fellow developers really are if they have the make different decisions based on different values.

Most developers I interact with who are what you might call 'AI skeptic', are most concerned with how this tech will be used, especially since its creation is rooted in mass scale disregard for ownership of anything.

> "The great cultural project of developers has been opposing any protection that might inconvenience a monetizable media-sharing site.... They stand up global-scale piracy networks",

IMO the author is here projecting or something, cause I literally never met someone with this opinion, and I've also been in tech/developer circles for over 20 years. Personal use of pirated content is very different from commercial distribution or making money of share sites. Not everyone's values are so rooted in making money with complete disregard to the impact of their actions in doing so.

I get it, the author wants to keep using LLMs are for people to stop trying to make them feel bad but trying to make a case for how their arguments are just dumb. But the author completely missed the 'why' behind the arguments. In the end, LLMs are a tool. Use them or not is up to the individual. But that doesn't give a blanket social license to use them in any way people, or more importantly, companies want.