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Comment by bgwalter

2 months ago

Guilt-tripping people into providing more fodder for the machine. That is really something else.

I'm not surprised that you don't understand ethics.

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simonw  2 months ago

I'm trying to guilt-trip them into using their skills to improve the world through continuing to release open source software.

I couldn't care less if their code was used to train AI - in fact I'd rather it wasn't since they don't want it to be used for that.

  • blibble  2 months ago

    given the "AI" industry's long term goals, I see contributing in any way to generative "AI" to be deeply unethical, bordering on evil

    which is the exact opposite of improving the world

    you can extrapolate to what I think of YOUR actions

    • simonw  2 months ago

      I imagine you think I'm an accelerant of all of this, through my efforts to teach people what it can and cannot do and provide tools to help them use it.

      My position on all of this is that the technology isn't going to uninvented and I very much doubt it will be legislated away, which means the best thing we can do is promote the positive uses and disincentivize the negative uses as much as possible.

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