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blibblelast Friday at 2:41 PM8 repliesview on HN

> That’s throwing the baby out with the bath water.

it's not

the parasites can't train their shitty "AI" if they don't have anything to train it on


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simonwlast Friday at 3:12 PM

You refusing to write open source will do nothing to slow the development of AI models - there's plenty of other training data in the world.

It will however reduce the positive impact your open source contributions have on the world to 0.

I don't understand the ethical framework for this decision at all.

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pdpilast Friday at 2:44 PM

Yes — That’s the bath water. The baby is the all the communal good that has come from FLOSS.

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Kirthlast Friday at 3:52 PM

surely that cat's out of the bag by now; and it's too late to make an active difference by boycotting the production of more public(ly indexed) code?

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ekianjolast Friday at 2:48 PM

If we end up with only proprietary software we are the one who lose

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xdavidliulast Friday at 3:02 PM

open source code is a miniscule fraction of the training data

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dvfjsdhgfvlast Friday at 2:44 PM

It is. If not you, other people will write their code, maybe of worse quality, and the parasites will train on this. And you cannot forbid other people to write open source software.

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garciasnlast Friday at 2:46 PM

Free software has always been about standing on the shoulders of giants.

I see this as doing so at scale and thus giving up on its inherent value is most definitely throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

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