alt Hacker NewsYou do it as a hobby, that's fine. Some people do it for a living. And while they aren't owed a living doing that specific thing, it is going to be a big problem for them if they can't make money at it anymore.
I'm sure plenty of people feel the same way about software. They make software as a hobby and don't care about remuneration or credit. Meanwhile I write software for my day job and losing the ability to make money from it would be devastating.
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Ah, I see. It’s just straightforward protectionism like dockworkers opposing automation and so on. That I do comprehend, in fact.
I write software too and I may no longer be able to just do it in the old way. Pretty scary world but also exciting. I can’t imagine trying to restrict LLM software writers on that basis but I can comprehend it as simply self-interest.
Fair enough.
> Some people do it for a living.
I was going to write, "not for long," which might be true for some. But then I realized there will always be a difference between LLM output and human writing. We don't read blogs because of their facts, we read them because of how the facts are presented and how the author's personality comes through on the page.
EDIT: That said, LLMs are great at faking it, and a lot of amateur writing will be difficult to distinguish from LLM output. So I'm disagreeing with myself a bit.
But we are talking about "slurping up" IP and regurgitating it right? OK. So if I slurp up Mickey Mouse and output Micky Mouse that's an offense. But what if I slurp up a billion images and output some chimera? That's what the LLMs do. And that's what humans do too.