Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million

https://sh.itjust.works/post/5241263

Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million - sh.itjust.works

A small team of 7 was able to create something of this magnitude , all thanks to the various tools of today like Generative AI.

We talk about the bad stuff of AI. But here’s the good… small mom and pop shops being able to release top tier products like the big companies.

It’s arguably not good that we’re normalizing people being able to use this while its training relied on other creators who were not compensated.
My programming training relied on other creators who were not compensated.
Were they in public forums and sites like stack overflow and GitHub where they wanted people to use and share their code?

Where did the AI companies get their code from? Is scraped from the likes of stack overflow and GitHub.

They don’t have the proprietary code that is used to run companies because it’s proprietary and it’s never been on a public forum available for download.