@[email protected]

This is an interesting moral dilemma.

I don't use #BigTech services and I've never used an #Anthropic #LLM so far, neither those you pay with your code, nor those you pay with your code AND your money.

Even if you don't pay with money and you don't care about your code, using their tools boil down the ocean so you should feed ashamed.

For this same reason I would never take their money either much like I would never use Google Ads on my websites: I feel them disgusting and their money toxic, polluting everything they touch (#GSoC included)

BUT if taking their money might hurt them enough to make them go bankrupt, I'd totally do that. I might donate those tainted money to a noprofit or even better burn them in public, but for the pleasure of demaging #Anthropic.

This might not be a theoretical issue as I likely qualify thanks to
@[email protected] that translated amd published as a book one of my essays in 2020: https://publishing.elenq.tech/books/What_is_Informatics/es/web.html

On the other hand, I'm afraid that taking their money somewhat legitimize their business model, cause once the authors get payed they are free to do whatever they want with their works, while I don't want them to use anything I wrote ever.

So the moral dilemna is: what hurts #Anthropic more? Getting their money or not?

If @[email protected] has any insight over this, they are more than welcome...