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[return to "Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet"]
1. rpcope+9j[view] [source] 2025-01-03 04:07:47
>>dend+(OP)
> Exploiting user-generated content.

You know, if I've noticed anything in the past couple years, it's that even if you self-host your own site, it's still going to get hoovered up and used/exploited by things like AI training bots. I think between everyone's code getting trained on, even if it's AGPLv3 or something similarly restrictive, and generally everything public on the internet getting "trained" and "transformed" to basically launder it via "AI", I can absolutely see why someone rational would want to share a whole lot less, anywhere, in an open fashion, regardless of where it's hosted.

I'd honestly rather see and think more about how to segment communities locally, and go back to the "fragmented" way things once were. It's easier to want to share with other real people than inadvertently working for free to enrich companies.

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2. dehrma+Jt[view] [source] 2025-01-03 06:02:33
>>rpcope+9j
> used/exploited by things like AI training bots

How is this worse than a human reading your blog/code, remembering the key parts of it, and creating something transformative from it?

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3. camgun+ni1[view] [source] 2025-01-03 14:52:00
>>dehrma+Jt
One of the--admittedly many--things that puts me off AI is the pitch starts off as "you will have abilities you never had before and probably never would have had, be excited", then when critics are like, "woof it's a little worrying you can <generate a million deepfakes>, <send a million personalized phishing emails>, <scrape a million websites and synthesize new ones>, etc.", the pitch switches to "you could always have done this, calm down".

The whole point of software engineering is to do stuff faster than you could before. It is THE feature. We could already add, we could already FMA, we could already do matrix math, etc. etc. Doing it billions of times faster than we could before at far less energy expenditure--even including what it takes to build and deliver computers--has led to an explosion of productivity, discovery, and prosperity. Scale is the point. It changes everything and we know it; we shouldn't pretend otherwise.

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