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Can we as a group agree to stop upvoting "AI is great" and "AI sucks" posts that don't make novel, meaningful arguments that provoke real thought? The plagiarism argument is thin and feels biased, the lock-in argument is counter to the market dynamics that are currently playing out, and in general the takes are just one dude's vibes.

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I don't know, this one is a little novel. I've never seen the developer of a Buddhist meditation app discuss whether to use LLMs with a paragraph like:

> Pariyatti’s nonprofit mission, it should be noted, specifically incorporates a strict code of ethics, or sīla: not to kill, not to steal, not to engage in sexual misconduct, not to lie, and not to take intoxicants.

Not a whole lot of Pali in most LLM editorials.

> not to engage in sexual misconduct

I must remember to add this quality guarantee to my own software projects.

My software projects are also uranium-free.

I dunno, I enjoyed reading about how the author personally feels about the act of working with them more then the whole "is this moral" part.

> The plagiarism argument is thin and feels biased

are you being serious with this one

If you're already sold on the plagiarism narrative that big entertainment is trying to propagandize in order to get leverage against the tech companies, nothing I say is going to change your mind.

I don't really know what you mean by "big entertainment" trying to get leverage against tech companies. Tech companies are behemoths. Most of the artists I know fretting about AI don't earn half a junior engineer's salary. And this is coming from someone who is relatively bullish on AI. I just don't think the framing of "big entertainment" makes any sense at all.

Unless you're anti-copyright in general, there's a real issue here, which can easily be demonstrated by prompting LLMs to reproduce copyrighted work.

"Big entertainment" may be using that issue in ways you don't personally approve of, but that doesn't negate the issue.

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