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No, it isn't. In my opinion, using LLMs/"AI" for anything is unethical, and unacceptable.
That includes "open-source" models too, because they're all trained by scraping the internet, and many of them (especially Qwen) try very hard to get around any and all attempts at blocking them. Not only do they not respect neither
/robots.txtnorx-robots-tagheaders, Qwen - and many other models - collect training data by using residential proxies, and by trying to fake real browsers, to get around crawler defenses.For receipts, see here for example: AliBaba sent over a million requests my way in a single day. That's already a lot, but: I'm firewalling these crawlers off for 12 hours after the first hit. It would have been a lot more if it weren't for the firewall (before the firewall, I often had 60-70 million requests / day from Alibaba alone). Here's how it looked prior to the firewall. Look at the "Rule hit distribution" panel. That near constant 200req/sec "asn" is almost entirely Alibaba. Much of the ~300req/sec "faked-browser" too, and I suspect that at least half of the "generated-url" wave with its ~800req/sec top are also Alibaba through residential proxies.
These crawlers are DDoSing the entire internet, and we have to come up with stupid defenses to keep ourselves online. By using any of these models, you're enabling them. Don't do that.
If you want to learn a new programming language, have its docs open, find small projects written in the language, find well documented libraries, packages, etc, and explore those. Far more accurate than any LLM, and you're not supporting the AI bubble and the relentless DDoS. You can even shove those resources into a personal search engine and query that. Hister is a decent option for that, for example.
Just out of curiosity, what do you think people stuck in a job that requires AI use to do? I mean, what should be their course of action?
Unionize.
And then tell your boss to suck it :)
It seems pretty good in theory.
Complain first, malicious compliance after, job seeking next, then move on to a better company. If the C-suite has a very strong hard-on for AI, skip the first two. Once the bubble pops, many of these companies that mandated AI will pop too - leave the ship before that happens.
Been there, done that, there are jobs without AI requirements, and increasingly more that forbid AI. It's not easy, but it is doable.