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It seems Linus's position is very clear now

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[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

Fuuuuuck.

In theory I could drive over to his house and knock on his door and ask him to stop using clankers, but I’m sure I would be trespassed immediately.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 18 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

I also live right outside Portland. This triplea the performance. He correctly documents its use. I see AI being used properly here. People complaining on Lemmy about it still use every piece of technology that make AI possible. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

AI is a hideous abomination tainting everything with its existence or our lord and savior that will soon™ solve all of humanity's problems. There is no middle-ground anymore.

And the notion that a tool can be useful for one thing if properly handled, not so useful if used carelessly, and absolutely stupid when used for a purpose it cannot actually fullfil is somehow (magic? collective brain-dead?) deemed crazy now.

PS: The only thing more insane than the discussion itself are the arguments about AI-use being unethical as it is trained on stolen data usually made by the very same copyleft guys that claim that no copyright should exist, all data should be free, and copying something is no theft!

[–] StoneStar@feddit.nl 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I personally -do- think copyright shouldn't exist. But it does (for Marvel or whatever), but not for GPL licensed projects once it is encoded in a matrix, and that's pretty messed up. "Loki is a copyrighted Marvel character, I can’t create a new, full-length story using him as the main character.", Yet if I ask it to write a text editor based on GNU Emacs it has very little problem doing so (edit: and technically failing, but still).

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