I am pretty sure that the whole open source ideology was developed and disseminated exactly by a cartel of those massive corporations with the sole intention to amass as much human-written code as possible to train AI.
replyAI algorithms were developed in 1950s, and what all those vultures were waiting for was a good dataset and enough compute power, which they saw coming in advance.
If LLMs aren't an example of trickle down, I don't know what is
replyPaying for something that has been scraped, trained on hundreds of billions of lines of code (mixed up GPL and other licenses) and being resold back to you is trickle down?
reply> whilst making billions for their shareholders
reply> I am yet to see this trickle down
hmm...these two sentences don't agree with each other.
I really would like to believe that GPL is the answer here but I know it won’t change anything for them. If they can steal and destroy books, nothing will ever stop them.
replyWe need to go beyond GPL and have the government invest in public software programs.
replyThe idea that advertisers and malware merchants are good stewards of the browser or email or social media needs to end. Especially when said tech leaders hold deeply anti-human beliefs.
FSF has been the greatest pro-corporate activist, convincing thousands if not millions of programmers to give away their code.
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