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While some of the listed projects are, correctly, building their ai policy on ethical grounds, others are merely using the copyright-ambiguity as argument.
I fear the latter might easily get dropped at some point as the software industry at large is now mostly just ignoring this concern.
This has me thinking and worrying about how easily larger/visible projects are infiltrated by corpo-minded robo-twats and how there's basically no guarantees that a policy today might not change in the future.
Visible projects where the main BD4L passes away, for example (vim?), seem particularly vulnerable for this kind of thing.
We can make policies, but they quickly become meaningless if they can change on a whim. What defense is there against this? I guess the software license itself?
I'd love to see a standard copyleft-compatible no-ai license. But I'm not sure how enforceable even those would be, given that the entire copyright thing is ignored in the first place.
But even beyond the whole LLM-fiasco... As a community of software developers making software for the benefit of humans (not corporations), what can we do to organize and protect ourselves better against corporate influence, takeovers, bad-faith contributions, etc,... ?
But things like this list give me some hope, and I'm seeing a lot of people on fedi with the right sentiments. I think it's important we take the future of our computing back. Because it most definitively has been stolen from us.
There's this nice list of no-slopware software https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html -- some nice people on the fediverse have contributed to (Thank you! ) --
While some of the listed projects are, correctly, building their ai policy on ethical grounds, others are merely using the copyright-ambiguity as argument.
I fear the latter might easily get dropped at some point as the software industry at large is now mostly just ignoring this concern.
This has me thinking and worrying about how easily larger/visible projects are infiltrated by corpo-minded robo-twats and how there's basically no guarantees that a policy today might not change in the future.
Visible projects where the main BD4L passes away, for example (vim?), seem particularly vulnerable for this kind of thing.
We can make policies, but they quickly become meaningless if they can change on a whim. What defense is there against this? I guess the software license itself?
I'd love to see a standard copyleft-compatible no-ai license. But I'm not sure how enforceable even those would be, given that the entire copyright thing is ignored in the first place.
But even beyond the whole LLM-fiasco... As a community of software developers making software for the benefit of humans (not corporations), what can we do to organize and protect ourselves better against corporate influence, takeovers, bad-faith contributions, etc,... ?
But things like this list give me some hope, and I'm seeing a lot of people on fedi with the right sentiments. I think it's important we take the future of our computing back. Because it most definitively has been stolen from us.
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While some of the listed projects are, correctly, building their ai policy on ethical grounds, others are merely using the copyright-ambiguity as argument.
I fear the latter might easily get dropped at some point as the software industry at large is now mostly just ignoring this concern.
This has me thinking and worrying about how easily larger/visible projects are infiltrated by corpo-minded robo-twats and how there's basically no guarantees that a policy today might not change in the future.
Visible projects where the main BD4L passes away, for example (vim?), seem particularly vulnerable for this kind of thing.
We can make policies, but they quickly become meaningless if they can change on a whim. What defense is there against this? I guess the software license itself?
I'd love to see a standard copyleft-compatible no-ai license. But I'm not sure how enforceable even those would be, given that the entire copyright thing is ignored in the first place.
But even beyond the whole LLM-fiasco... As a community of software developers making software for the benefit of humans (not corporations), what can we do to organize and protect ourselves better against corporate influence, takeovers, bad-faith contributions, etc,... ?
But things like this list give me some hope, and I'm seeing a lot of people on fedi with the right sentiments. I think it's important we take the future of our computing back. Because it most definitively has been stolen from us.