I might read GPL code once in a while. But I would never copy-paste it when someone asks for, say, how to do a fast inverse square root. (I don't really read AGPL code b/c most AGPL companies I've encountered strike me as salivating for a reason to force a license on a business entity.) The closest I did was looking at GPL code once upon a time for some geo-transform code, and frankly didn't use any of it and instead used a USGS book to re-implement everything in a fully legal-safe way.
It's because a human you can be accountable and can feel consequences, and yes, also because you aren't as fast.
I feel like many people just equivalent "human brain and consciousness" with "neural network" way too quickly. You can't remove the human factor however much you try to equivelate(?) it with a program.
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You can spin up more compute with a credit card. You can't make 1000 people in the same manner, nor can you own them.
Lets be real here though. The only reason anyone is drooling over AI is because it potentially allows one to elide paying someone else, ehich means more money for them.
As usual in these scenarios, the only real injustice is that the people who tried to stand in the way will enjoy the benefits of progress in AI alongside those who worked to make it happen. So it goes, I guess.
I expect the absolute most aggressive enforcement of copyright in this case.
As to my more general assertion of AI only getting the traction it is because of an industry looking to devalue it's currently incredibly highly priced laborers; spend a bit of time around shareholders/management types and you'll soon understand why I think the way I do. Magical thinking, "as long as it makes my outlays lower" thinking is par for the course. There are, in fact, social classes who see the "hired help" as something meant to be out of sight, out of mind, and lucky they get what they are willing to give.
Besides the above hot take, I also see AI as being fundamentally disruptive to the human social fabric. I'm not convinced that as a society we're even prepared to have a real conversation eith regards to a technology that at any time could cross a threshold to sspience. The choruses of such individuals as Carmack and plenty of other HN posters on "it's just a statistical model", and "lets wait til it's at least a developmentally challenged toddler before worrying about those types of concerns" (where those types of questions are those with regard to sapience, and the matter of where the line between "just a statistical model" lay) only proves my point The reductionist viewpoint will be stretched right up to the point that there's a court case where the public finds out that training or instantiating models that communicate with one another basically involves torturing a collective mind that no one bothered to see that way because it was just so stupidly productive.
Hell, the outcome of said case would probably be shifting research in a direction whereby it's possible to make a construct that just barely toes the line. Which misses the entire moral point.
You could say I'm fairly black-pilled on the matter. Humanity can't even deal with one another, or competently raise their own children. We don't need to be committing terrible parenting on an industrial scale.
...If you've read through all of this, you're ptobably a better person than I currently, but know there was a time I shared your attitude toward the subject matter. Then I really started to pay attention to how people treat one another, and how money actually gets earmarked for different things. The learning experience is something I'd not wish on anyone, but as you, and our shared friends the Trafalmadorians say,
So it goes.
If I'm the creator of the work, I get to say that. That I have no means to enforce that is precisely why I've taken all of my work off of the public web.
> There's no realistic way to differentiate web access for human purposes vs. AI purposes in the long run.
Right, which is a very serious problem.
I still don't see it as an AI failure as a human failure in the use of sophisticated tools.