Comment by cardanome
1 day ago
> I view AI overlap under the same lense-- if current copyright rules would lead to undesirable outcomes (by making all AI training or use illegal/infeasible) then law/interpretation simply has to be changed
Not sure about undesirable, I so wish we could just ban all generative AI.
I feel profound sadness of having lost the world we had before generative AI became widespread. I really loved programming and seeing my trade devalued with vibe coding is just heart breaking. We will see mass unemployment, deep fakes, more AI induced psychosis, a devaluing of human art. I hate this new world.
It would be the morally correct thing to bann generative AI as it only benefits corporations and doesn't improve the life of the people but makes it worse.
The training of the big LLMs has been criminal. Whether we talk about GPL licensed code or the millions of artist that never released their work under a specific license and would never haven consented to it being used for training.
I still think states will allow it and legalize the crime because they believe that AI offer competitive advantages and they will fear "falling behind". Plus military use.
In my opinion programming has never been this much fun. The vast vast majority of code is repetitive stuff that now is a breeze. I can build so much stuff now, and with more beautiful code because refactoring is effortless.
I think it's like going from pre industrial revolution manual labor, to modern tools and machines.
I agree, back before LLMs I would be so tired at the end of the day and it would take forever, typing out tedious stuff that I've done before but slightly differently - making a form for some thing or a page that displays something else. Now I can just go and tell it to make me a new page in the style of the last one that displays XYZ information instead and it makes it in 20 seconds. Tell it to implement this algorithm for this data and it does it. It's great, it feels like going up a level in abstraction and just thinking about the bigger picture.
If the vast majority of your code is repetitive stuff, you are not using the right abstractions.