Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers

• Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Disillusionist@piefed.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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).

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      • Disillusionist@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I have never once said that *AI is bad*. Literally everything I’ve argued pertains to the ethics and application of AI. It’s reductive to call all arguments critical of *how* AI is being implemented “AI bad*.

        It’s not even about it being disruptive, though I do think discussions about that are absolutely warranted. Experts have pointed to potentially catastrophic “disruptions” if AI isn’t dealt with responsibly, and we are currently anything but responsible in our handling of it. It’s unregulated, running rampant and free everywhere claiming to be all things for all people, leaving a mass of problems in its wake.

        If a specific individual or company is committed to behaving ethically, I’m not condemning them. A major point to understand is that those small, ethical actors are the extreme minority. The major players, like those you mentioned, are titans. The problems they create are real.

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    • Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So? Is he more important than those specialists who now can write code without hiring a consultant?

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