Mastodawn

Question for people who choose not to use generative AI for ethical reasons: Do you make that choice despite accepting the growing evidence that it works (at least for some tasks, e.g. coding agents working on some kinds of software)? Or do you reject it because of the ethical problems *and* a belief that it doesn't actually work?

I'm thinking that principled rejection of generative AI might have to be the former kind, *despite* evidence that it works.

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vksxypants

@matt I've used it and I've seen it work - it clearly has value. But it also has a cost - to creators of original works, to the environment, and to society when megacorporations are monopolising them - which I'm not willing to pay.

Local LLMs are better on the cost front and sometimes satisfy the value side of the equation, so I'm more forgiving of them. But overall, to answer your question, I'm the former, not the latter.