Link: Make AI Boring Again

I previously suggested that I might write about my thoughts on the ethics of generative AI. Now I don’t need to, because Charity Majors covered just about everything I wanted to. Of course she did it way better than I could have.

I endorse the whole piece, but especially this:

I am troubled by the amount of motivated reasoning coming from the people I feel politically aligned with. It’s very easy to mock and write off people who vocally hate AI for a long list of things they never seemed to give a shit about before they realized they hated AI and went looking for reasons.

And oh man does this footnote resonate with me:

I have to say how much whiplash it gives me, as a child of open source and copyleft, to find that copyright law and internet advertising are now… the good guys? this timeline is WEIRD you guys

It really does continue to astound me how so many people seem to have decided that fair use shouldn’t be a thing anymore. We used to protest that kind of crap!