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Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?

This platform is full of authors and artists who don't like having their work stolen.

I think that may be the core division here: if you are an author or an artist the cons of generative AI very likely outweigh the pros for you If you are a software developer the opposite is true

"If you are a homeowner, the cons of burglary very likely outweigh the pros for you. If you are a burglar the opposite is true"

Simon's talking about the use of AI to write code If you think AI training data is stolen labor -- which I consider a strong argument! -- it's stolen, in this case, from software developers, who posted their code on sites like StackOverflow not expecting it to be sold to OpenAI & company

AI does a terrible job with code. Yes, really. It's almost always inexperienced programmers touting it, and for small things. It hallucinates and makes errors at the same rate there too. This is just the latest boss's attempt to abuse that kind labor.

There are may arguments against generative AI that I find highly credible - the environmental impact, the fact that the training data is unlicensed, many negative impacts of how it is used, AI psychosis and other harms to users I don't think the idea that it's terrible at code holds up any more

the spine of this website is creatives whose work is being stolen, not developers who find AI useful. That's why this site is so negative towards AI. We don't like crime.

That's pretty much the point I was trying to make in the post that sparked this whole firestorm bsky.app/profile/simo...

Except your last point isn’t “true”.