Comment by cousin_it
9 hours ago
I'm thinking more and more that there's an ethical problem with using LLMs for programming. You might be reusing someone's GPL code with the license washed off. It's especially worrisome if the results end up in a closed product, competing with the open source project and making more money than it. Of course neither you nor the AI companies will face any consequence, the government is all-in and won't let you be hurt. But ethically, people need to start asking themselves some questions.
For me personally, in my projects there's not a single line of LLM code. At most I ask LLMs for advice about specific APIs. And the more I think about it, the more I want to stop doing even that.
The same here. I find big AI-corpos pretty evil and drastically misaligned with broader well-being of the society.
I would also add: if you're paying, supporting their cause with your money.
Sometimes I would like to have magical make-my-project tool for my selfish reasons; sometimes I know it would be a bad choice to fall behind on what's to come. But I really, really don't want to support that future.