• ducktumn@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    Does not matter how he uses AI. It is a fundamentally unethical technology. Environmental damage, job losses, stealing work from open source programmers and artists, poisoning the young generations mind etc.

    I don’t give a fuck how Linus uses AI. Linux was here before LLMs were a thing and it can continue to be like this. Linus chose the easy way and disregarded every single negative aspect of it and decided to call it 'just a tool". The exact same excuse every single cuckcoder uses btw.

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      11 hours ago

      no it is not fundamentally unethical. Please stop perpetuating this stupid take. AI is not designed to do unethical things. The profit motive drives companies to doing unethical things with it. If it weren’t for AI, they’d use something else.

      Please don’t lose sight of the root cause of the problems, which is profit above everything. Equally you could say that fossil fuel combustion engines are fundamentally unethical because they cause climate change and all sorts of health issues.

      Most technologies are neither ethical nor unethical. It is how you use them and what for that might be ethical or unethical. Sure they can be more or less useful. We can argue about that. But technology itself is orthogonal to ethics. Unless it is nukes or anything that is explicitly designed to do harm and nothing else.

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      15 hours ago

      Does not matter how he uses AI.

      It matters a lot.

      It is a fundamentally unethical technology. Environmental damage, job losses, stealing work from open source programmers and artists, poisoning the young generations mind etc.

      Agreed.

      I don’t give a fuck how Linus uses AI.

      Doesn’t matter what you give a fuck.

      Linux was here before LLMs were a thing and it can continue to be like this.

      Linux was much different back then and changed multiple times over the course of its existence.

      Linus chose the easy way and disregarded every single negative aspect of it and decided to call it 'just a tool".

      I do not believe that Linus disregarded every single negative aspect. He still expresses his issues with it if there are. Linus was always pragmatic and practical thinking. From his perspective it is just a tool, like a compiler is.

      The exact same excuse every single cuckcoder uses btw.

      What is a cuckcoder? (I start thinking with your language and choice of words in both replies, that you have a dick problem.)