• Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    7 months ago

    Totally agree, however there is the problem that any FOSS approach gets exploited by corps for free labour. Which is how half the web is maintained by 3 furries in their non-existent spare time even though billion dollar comapnies use it every second.

    Now 98% of AI is goopshit, but I’m sure a few useful applications will arise here and there and I’d rather corps have to fucking pay their way rather than coast off of the labour of workers they haven’t even bother to make a wage slave.

      • PauliExcluded [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        7 months ago

        At my last job, our product depended on an open source project by one of the company’s former employees. I came across a massive bug in our code base that was related to this open source project. Despite the fix for the open source code being like 3 lines, management kept saying, “but we don’t want to help our competitors who might use this.” (No one else used it.) At one point, management asked me why don’t I fix it off the clock because then it wouldn’t be “company resources going into an open source product”. My response was basically “fuck you, pay me.” It took me a literal month to finally convince management.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      For productive generative AI, all that’s needed is for what it produces to be non-ownable along with anything incorporating it. For generative AI fitting into an internal supporting labor role a different solution would have to be found, I’m not sure what but a nuclear option to strip away property rights from anything touching it would probably be the simplest and strongest (also the idea that “the servers running the chatbot are free you can just take them home I have hundreds of them” being real and legal is very funny).

      I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s impossible to stop all the negative effects of AI, so policy responses should be focused on stopping the most harmful uses that can be stopped, and within that framework corporate control and ownership of it is an existential threat in a way that all the harm that would come from AI proliferation is not.