tanteMar 5

This case shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code and tests through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being accumulated and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded in front of our eyes.

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/pull/322

chardet 7.0: ground-up MIT-licensed rewrite by dan-blanchard · Pull Request #322 · chardet/chardet

Summary This PR is for a ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet. It maintains API compatibility with chardet 5.x and 6.x, but with 27x improvements to detection speed, and highly accurate suppo...

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Show threadDavidMar 5

@tante Ugh. It's taken me awhile to identify my feelings about AI and I think it's essentially the 5 facets of grief. Often anger and denial, always depression, and even occasionally bargaining (with my manager) or acceptance (resignation, really).

AI feels like such a loss and the nonstop barrage of breathless enthusiasm from the media and folks at work feels truly bewildering and *isolating*. It's heartbreaking to see my industry (software dev) blithely ignoring the (environmental, human, social, economic) cost of their new toy.

Show threadOzzelot Mar 5
@leathekd
I thought devs would be the first to reject this (as they too should take pride in their skill as humans.) I couldn't have been more wrong.
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Show threadDan FitzGerald
@ozzelot @leathekd @tante in a lot of cases we dont have the ability to. "Use AI or we fucking fire you" is pretty popular right now.
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