One thing that continues to grate on my conscience about #AI is how artists and writers consistently feel that the technology has STOLEN from them.
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@drahardja @peter It is of note that nearly every free-culture license requires attribution, even the permissive licenses. AI doesn't honour this at all. At best, it cites some webpages if there's a search engine bolted on, but for images, code and music that simply does not happen.
@brib @drahardja @peter this is my rebuttal to the people who tell me I’ve “always been a prompt engineer because web search, so just embrace the new better search!” Not only is that a massive overstatement in my case, as I prefer learning by finding and reading good books, but when I need search I still prefer web indexes for the essential context provided by attribution which LLMs are incapable of retaining. Take me to the original source and *its* references!
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One discussion I’d like to have is how ethically-motivated software engineers and managers, both junior and senior, can put the brakes on at their workplace. Many corporations are implementing top-down mandates to use coding assistant models during development. However, many are now at some “pilot” stage and are therefore somewhat receptive (vulnerable) to pushback from the ranks. What are some strategies that employees have to make ethical problems more salient to the discussion?
In many cases, “refuse to use it” is not an option—or at least it’s likely perceived as a career-limiting option—because of said top-down mandate. Senior staff can choose this path, but junior ones will find it very risky unless there is community support.
@drahardja Pointing out that it's f..ing awful at coding seems to work.
At our place the legal dept have rung alarm bells at the possibility of our source code being used to train an LLM and be spat out almost unchanged to a competitor.. so they've declared a moratorium on AI use except certain 'approved' ones (which will almost certainly end up being only copilot because we're an MS shop).
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