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increasingly believing much of the communication gap between LLM Enthusiasts and LLM Skeptics on this website boils down to “are you someone who has largely experienced a *reasonable* amount of job security in tech, or are you someone who has not experienced job security and likely aren’t in tech”

I think this is pretty much bang on. My day job is in tech and I also work and mix mostly with the art community outside my usual work. Many people in tech seem truly surprised at my resistance to AI tools and are very unaware of many of the reasons that people feel opposed to it.

I recently had a conversation with an engineer where I asked if he was concerned about building production code with AI when it appears genAI creations can’t be copyrighted. He hadn’t considered it nor had he heard anything about possible copyright issues. In the tech world it doesn’t even come up.

Most software engineers do most of their work under work-for-hire *or* under contributor license agreements *or* under some copyleft-or-adjacent license. I think artists do a lot more portfolio-building and personal work where they presume copyright ownership.