The guy is talking about consulting as I understand. Yes, LLM is great for reading the documentation. That’s the purpose of LLM. Now people can use those libraries without spending ages reading through docs. That’s progress. I see it as a way to write more open source because it became simpler and less tedious.
He’s jumping ship because it’s destroying his ability to eke out a living. The problem isn’t a small one, what’s happening to him isn’t a limited case.
We didn’t smash automobiles because horse traders were losing their jobs.
Nobody rioted when Computer became an object instead of a white collar job.
Technology is disruptive, that doesn’t make all technology bad or unethical. It is specific people/organizations that are involved in unethical projects, not the technology itself.
It seems that every time someone mentions ‘AI Bad’, they’re really talking about a person who is being unethical. People simply say ‘AI’ is bad when they mean ‘OpenAI’ or ‘NVIDIA’ or ‘Microsoft’ are unethical.
There are companies that are using ethically sourced data for training AI. For example, Adobe’s generative AI is trained on data licensed from artists explicitly for training AI. VoiceSwap.ai is licensing training data from vocalists and employing the artists for fine-tuning as well as sharing the revenue from the resulting product. Common Corpus is a massive LLM training set made of data that is either licensed or unprotected by copyright (public domain books, for example).
Disillusionist@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
[For instance](https://vger.to/programming.dev/post/43810907
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
The guy is talking about consulting as I understand. Yes, LLM is great for reading the documentation. That’s the purpose of LLM. Now people can use those libraries without spending ages reading through docs. That’s progress. I see it as a way to write more open source because it became simpler and less tedious.
Disillusionist@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
He’s jumping ship because it’s destroying his ability to eke out a living. The problem isn’t a small one, what’s happening to him isn’t a limited case.
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
So? Is he more important than those specialists who now can write code without hiring a consultant?
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We didn’t smash automobiles because horse traders were losing their jobs.
Nobody rioted when Computer became an object instead of a white collar job.
Technology is disruptive, that doesn’t make all technology bad or unethical. It is specific people/organizations that are involved in unethical projects, not the technology itself.
It seems that every time someone mentions ‘AI Bad’, they’re really talking about a person who is being unethical. People simply say ‘AI’ is bad when they mean ‘OpenAI’ or ‘NVIDIA’ or ‘Microsoft’ are unethical.
There are companies that are using ethically sourced data for training AI. For example, Adobe’s generative AI is trained on data licensed from artists explicitly for training AI. VoiceSwap.ai is licensing training data from vocalists and employing the artists for fine-tuning as well as sharing the revenue from the resulting product. Common Corpus is a massive LLM training set made of data that is either licensed or unprotected by copyright (public domain books, for example).