alt Hacker News> The giant plagiarism machines have already stolen everything. Copyright is dead. Licenses are washed away in clean rooms.
Isn't this what the free software movement wanted? Code available to all?
Yes, code is cheap now. That's the new reality. Your value lies elsewhere.
You can lament the loss of your usefulness as a horse buggy mechanic, or you can adapt your knowledge and experience and use it towards those newfangled automobiles.
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sdevonoes • today at 12:59 PM
Progress is good. But why on earth should we support Anthropic/OpenAI/etc? What the planet needs is less multibillion corporations, not more
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mmustapic • today at 1:00 PM
No, the free software movement wants that the source code of the software you use be available to you to modify it if you wish. AI does not necessarily do that.
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> Isn't this what the free software movement wanted? Code available to all?
Available to all yes. Not available to the giant corpos while the lone hobbyist still fears getting sued to oblivion. In fact that's pretty much the opposite of what the free software movement wanted.
Also the other thing the free software movement wanted was to be able to fix bugs in the code they had to use, which AI is pulling us further and further away from.