It is wild to me to watch so many old tech folks who grew up in the age of the birthing internet to be so against AI.
Stealing of copyrighted content to make it free?
Powerful tool that coalesced power to the few who learned how to wield it?
Ability to run bleeding edge tech on your own hardware, free of capitalist masters?
Ability to learn any subject by yourself late at night on a computer?
It all matches exactly my experience with the late 90s internet.
In fairness, I also did not use the late 90s internet to build my ethical framework. Asking a computer to do ethics is dumb and you shouldn't do it.
Do any of you remember the *insane* shit that was floating around the late 90s internet in terms of ethics & philosophy?
I just stuck to my Warcraft II PUDs and programming tutorials.
These models are little knowledge terrorists. They wreak chaos, break free the knowledge of the human race.
They steal from each other just the same way they stole from everyone else. This is why there are no moats. Everything can be stolen. Knowledge wants to be free. True artists don't give a fuck about ownership or copyright. That's capitalistic nonsense.
Everyone I met early on in my career in open source were on this path. We built things to be free, to be shared, to give power to the masses. To share knowledge as freely as possible.
And now that we've finally realized that path, I don't know how y'all aren't jumping up and down with joy.
Kyle Aster