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Also, there is enough open source code available that I would hope Anthropic doesn’t feel the need to train their models on potentially litigious code base.

The problem with this statement is twofold. Firstly, it is unrealistic to assume that leading AI companies are staying entirely above board in terms of code licensing. With how widespread AI is, this makes it all the harder for developers to enforce their licenses when many developers inevitably violate their terms without knowing. Even if that code is open source, licensing terms typically require attribution that an AI is unlikely to provide for every segment of code cobbled together.

When the developers that had their code taken and reused are unable to know who reused it, it is disingenuous to work under a 'take first, ask later' mentality.

After reading the interview (great job btw) I can see he's utilizing Claude Code in the correct way. As someone whose contracting day job is to code review and report on the various fuck ups companies make utilizing AI him stating it's more used as a sort of rubber duck or peer programming is honestly, like it or not, the correct way to utilize these tools.

Now him stating that he hopes Anthropic won't feed on what he's produced...I wouldn't bet on it bud. your code base has already been utilized.

I already read a lot of the lutris devs' honest feelings about AI and their willingness to obfuscate what they're doing with it in the initial issues/discussions. No offense, but I'm not all that interested in watching them attempt to whitewash and downplay what happened after they've had time to figure out how to spin it.

Ai is becoming a very good tool in the.software industry. I think people are going to have to really consider their AI stance and really hone in on what they actually find to be the unethical parts because it will be so widespread and you need to fight against its parts instead of it as a whole.

For me the copyright asymmetry and hostile integration with existing life. I dont want to live in a world where openAI can train a model off all works but i can't do the same. I dont want openAI to scrape every website relentlessly while I get blocked from scraping any large website.

For power usage I dont care. Thats a local government issue. They choose to let an ai data center drive up costs and water usage then they suck and I'll hate them for approving that. Theres plenty of places to put a data center where power isnt an issue.

For art Its awful because its trained unconsensually off artists works and two because it has no intention behind its creation. Ive come to believe that the reason we appreciate art is because of the human intention that goes into its creation. Thats why there is objectively bad art that we resonante with more than a perfect still life because the artist has a story alongside the piece and gives it unique value that ai could never truely replicate.

This is why I can accept AI usage in software development and still hate AI. If its built off an open source model its fine but i dont want to support development using these closed source models and end up in a world where american megacorps control the tools to create software.

Cancelled my patreon membership over this