A small one of the myriad reasons I care is personal: every time you use spicy autocomplete to do any coding, it has been trained on source code that I have made available under specific licenses, and your use of my code does not happen under the terms of these licenses. So you’re stealing from me and my friends and that’s not a great start to the conversation of validating your greed ✌️
@janl i totally agree, but I also realize that the majority of the stuff on Stack Overflow is also stolen. People post code there that is not theirs all the time.
I'd bet some of your code (and mine) is there, posted by someone else.
The only difference is whether a human or a machine is regurgitating it – which is a big difference, but is it a difference without a distinction?
@jimmylittle my main point is that we can all look at the same SO discussion and that has value. LLMs force us to individually deal (and pay) and any insight gained is not visible to all but only benefit one human and the LLM.
It’s a form of disenfranchising a commons, even though SO is not Wikipedia.
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