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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by glitching@lemmy.ml to c/programming@lemmy.ml
 

I commend the dude's ethics; I myself am fueled just by hatred and malice towards that industry, so it's refreshing to see dudes like this about. good reading, too.

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[–] modulus@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

I'm also not thrilled about the obsession with copyright. I was against copyright in the 90s. I was against copyright in the 2000s. I was against copyright in the 2010s. And now these people want to call integrity lack of ethics just because I'm not willing to endorse yet another extension to a legal monopoly forbidding me from running arbitrary algorithms on data supposedly owned by someone else?

I'm sympathetic to the environmental arguments. Though I also would point out there are much greater areas of marginal waste to cut on. Online advertising uses more energy than AI. I look forward to the day it's banned.

But the whole "we're going to play pretend that I can ban you from transposing text I wrote through a matrix" thing? Absolutely not. Nothing good comes out of that.