Mastodawn

Re: genAI killing open source, one strategy I've been pursuing lately is closed-sourcing everything going forward, but forming human relationships with other developers. I then literally just... send them code for stuff that would help their projects, from my own codebases, and tell them they can feel free to integrate it without owing me anything.

I've been feeling pretty good about that strategy so far. I like that it places my human relationships first, without exposing my work to either corporate exploitation or LLM mining (for later corporate exploitation).

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🌸 Ⓐnarkitty lumi-nhac

Mar 5

@zkat you could have your code on a platform with a stronger moral compass, like codeberg, and license it under gplv3 to dissuade corporations

that's what i'm doing, at least

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kat Mar 5

@lumi so people can just train their models on it and then do a """clean room""" rewrite? No thanks. Also, I'm tired of doing free labor for companies. Even GPL stuff will get used by them.

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gibwar

@zkat @lumi I don't even know if licenses matter any more to companies and their AI. They just slurp everything, ignore all licenses, and declare it as "fair use". I agree that as much as I want to share my stuff, I also don't want to be doing free labor at that scale either.