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"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/54810980
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Senko Rašić"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmersThe software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...Replying to @FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works
Whoever you are, don’t outsource your understanding, judgement, empathy and taste to AI. Don’t abdicate your responsibility. Don’t be a meat proxy.
By expanding the ability to program to people without the knowledge of how that code works in the first place, it’s naive to expect that most uses of AI in programming will be informed uses by senior developers able to recognize errors and security flaws.
Such a pro-AI position also ignores the enormous amount of theft that these tools are built on.
Replying to @Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
Such a pro-AI position also ignores the enormous amount of theft that these tools are built on.
Or, less likely, it could be that person knows and just doesn't care. I certainly don't because I believe intellectual property is bullshit.
AI training is data theft not IP theft
Replying to @EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app
The data theft is another story, but there's clearly an IP theft angle to anti-AI arguments, as seen in the other person response.
His other comment applies just as easily to to stolen medical images, like this woman’s , as it does more creative works. It feels violating either way. Virtually no one is worried about Mickey Mouse appearing in data sets, but lots of people do feel wronged when their emails are trained on without permission or compensation, even though they’re not really IPs.
Ars TechnicaArtist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data setLAION scraped medical photos for AI research use. Who's responsible for taking them down?Replying to @EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app
It can be both…
Yeah, it can be both, like, if you want to argue that in our current capitalist society people need to be compensated fairly for their work, I’ll hear that argument, but I don’t think it’s the best or most accurate framing. I think it’s just as obnoxious reddit made a deal with google to train on my (and everyone else’s) comments throughout the website as I do the possibility it was trained on my artwork, and I’m not alone in that.