nixCraft 🐧5d ago
💯 vcs and tech bros act like they cured cancer with Gen AI. Lmao. In reality, they just stole every thing out there while causing large amount of environmental damage to build a slop machine and slop OS.
Show threadJohn5d ago

If I ask Gemini to convert a 20 line fish script I wrote into bash, who exactly did I steal from? That new 20 line bash script doesn't exist anywhere else in the world.

I think non-practitioners are getting on a different page than practitioners, because they don't understand how these things are really being used.

Show threadPier Hegeman5d ago
@buckfiftyseven From every project that had their work swiped without consent or compensation. Google didn’t magic up that script out of thin air, they stole it. From the people of the future who are going to live with constant droughts and catastrophic climate disasters. And from yourself, through deskilling.
Show threadJohn5d ago

@pier what do you mean by project? Are you suddenly making a rule that every bash man page, that was intended to be read by a bash user, cannot be read by this kind of mechanical bash user?

Or are you saying that some past answer to someone's bash problem, which we all understood could be useful to other bash users, cannot be used by this kind of bash user?

Why wouldn't I want *my* answers to reach as many people as possible?

Show threadPier Hegeman
@buckfiftyseven Right, because Gemini is trained exclusively on bash man pages and Stack Overflow 🙄
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Show threadJohn5d ago

@pier Yes those, and certainly any open source project that did not put in an exclusion. There's a lot of BSD licensed code out there.

Ah, I found this interesting snippet just now:

"Based on feedback, it does not appear that I can release the code under a true open source license and have any kind of anti-AI/LLM restrictions."

Yep. It's something I went through when I was designing my open source licenses 20 years ago. It's pretty hard to exclude bad guys without also excluding good guys.