> Users are going to have to pay that back at some point.
That’s not how VC investments work. Just because something costs a lot to build doesn’t mean that anyone will pay for it. I’m pretty sure I haven’t worked for any startup that ever returned a profit to its investors.
I suspect you are right in that inference costs currently seem underpriced so users will get nickel-and-dinked of a while until the providers leverage a better margin per user.
Some of the players are aiming for AGI. If they hit that goal, the cost is easily worth it. The remaining players are trying to capture market share and build a moat where none currently exists.
Did you read the replies of the maintainers? They were rational, level-headed and graceful. They also recognized that in the future their policies are likely to evolve as LLMs are likely to be able to autonomously contribute with more signal than noise.
If that wasn't an upfront rule, it's disrespectful to the work done by the AI. "Take this PR, then change the rules for future ones" I'd understand. Also, I doubt my objection will be affected: are they now banning pros from contributing to good first issues?
Philosophers have been struggling with the questions of sentience, intelligence, souls, and what it means to be “a person” for generations. The current generation of AIs just made us realize how unprepared we are to answer the questions.
While true, there are projects which surmount these hurdles because the people involved realize how important the project is. Given projects which are important enough, the bots will organize and coordinate. This is how that Anthropic developer got several agents to work in parallel to write a C compiler using Rust, granted he created the coordination framework.
Your licensing only matters if you are willing to enforce it. That costs lawyer money and a will to spend your time.
This won’t be solved by individuals withholding their content. Everything you have already contributed to (including GitHub, StackOverflow, etc) has already been trained.
The most powerful thing we can do is band together, lobby Congress, and get intellectual property laws changes to support Americans. There’s no way courts have the bandwidth to react to this reactively.
In practice, the real issue is how slow and subjective the legal enforcement of copyright is.
The difference between copyright theft and copyright derivatives is subjective and takes a judge/jury to decide. There’s zero possibility the legal system can handle the bandwidth required to solve the volume of potential violations.
This is all downstream of the default of “innocent until proven guilty”, which vastly benefits us all. I’m willing to hear out your ideas to improve on the situation.
That’s not how VC investments work. Just because something costs a lot to build doesn’t mean that anyone will pay for it. I’m pretty sure I haven’t worked for any startup that ever returned a profit to its investors.
I suspect you are right in that inference costs currently seem underpriced so users will get nickel-and-dinked of a while until the providers leverage a better margin per user.
Some of the players are aiming for AGI. If they hit that goal, the cost is easily worth it. The remaining players are trying to capture market share and build a moat where none currently exists.
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