To be honest, this development is simply the logical consequence of applying the principle of profit maximization.

Unfortunately, technology has now reached such a scale that the people behind the spreadsheets are willing to sacrifice humanity itself.

That, too, is not surprising, because they will only realize their mistake when it is already too late.

Another example of the same principle is climate change.

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    because the staggering output of AI models will not only make it increasingly unlikely that they will receive compensation for their work, but also that they will receive recognition for it

    Don’t forget scraping. GH is already there with public repos, and even if you take a chance and go elsewhere (or don’t release source code) some tools are locked-in (too small to move or too large to move) so it has a chilling effect on growth/contribution.

    I am there already. Albeit just starting out and the thing I didn’t share yet is just a simple sweeper clone (in a somewhat niche language+Godot bindings).