I think this is a step. We also have a general problem where the people who are using AI are lauded while those who are not are treated as "deniers" or those who will be "left behind" who have also blown up the backlash with their behavior.

AI is the largest and most obvious poster-child of the tech industry in how it breaks social norms for profit. People who are being creative and want to share what they are doing are doing it for human interaction... not for training some tech company's ai model. People who are doing open source work are doing it for humans, not to train an AI model. People who are making videos on YouTube are doing it for humans, not to train an AI model.

In layman speak, even if i isn't illegal, AI is a very large "dick move." The behavior is aiming for profit, but it is understood you have to hurt everyone else on the way. AI is a bit like someone taking shit and smearing it in the faces of billions of people for profit. You punch the people in the face enough, they stop making open source projects, they stop sharing videos, they stop sharing their art.

I am constantly surprised about the people on here who talk about using AI personally or at work. It is a bit like one of those stories of someone walking into a bar with camera glasses and being surprised when someone punches them. What are you expecting?

The rest of us suffer while the fucktards in big tech force AI down our throats.WE NO LONGER HAVE PERMISSION FOR PHYSICAL THINGS.

How about you fucktards start paying some reparations rather than taking smugly how you replaced your real dog with a chat gpt one. This is not a fucking joke.

I don't really use AI, but I feel like I am subsidizing teams like yours through increased costs for computer hardware. Do you think I can get your team to pay the difference so you are paying the real costs? I want to get a new Playstation this year and it really isn't fair. We can talk offline.

The original purpose of GitHub was for social collaboration. Since Microsoft's aquisition it has changed a lot to align with it's goals. TLDR, it is currently first and foremost a delivery mechanism for copilot token consumption. You try to report an issue on a project, and a maintainer will use something like speckit to "fix" a bug with no interaction often making a bug worse. Given this reality, making alternatives GitHub to push token usage will be extremely lucrative.

Microsoft got their money's worth with github. Between npm and GitHub, they took over many developer spheres. They are the face of git. They are the face of JavaScript though typescript and owning npm. They are the face of coding with vscode. They are the face of modern python etc.

Microsoft is milking the feast they built, pushing all of their current integrations. But longer term, I think there will be a brain drain of open source projects on GitHub. It's currently not a place for human beings.

You are twisting the OP's statements. The core problem of all of this is it is going down the path of forcing you to have a smart phone if you don't want one for basic needs. While it is convenient for some of these needs, it is also used as a side vehicle for monopolizing your attention and data. You become a product to be sold... A piece of plastic does not do that.

Some examples of this path.

• In Japan, we have had health insurance cards merged into what is equivalent to a the social security card in the US. To read you're health insurance information, you need a phone that supports Japan's version of NFC. I can't schedule a health checkup because for some reason my older iphone can't read it to get my insurance information.
• You go onto YouTube, and you find those who ditch their smartphone can't get into their own apartment building becuase it is NFC.
• Many restaurants only have QR codes for menus. In Japan, you are forced to become a friend of the restaurant in your messaging app so you can order.

I think the convenience is great for those who want it. But for those of us who don't want it, it is like people like you are smothering shit in our faces and asking why we don't like it. I work in tech, but in my opinion the bit tech CEOs should die. Someone should go crazy and murder them for their proactive meddling daily life and I don't think that feeling is unreasonable.

This isn't fucking complicated. The parent poster is an idiot not understanding human dynamics.

Yes, students aren't going to do classwork... because the teachers are also not finding it important to create the material. If a teacher can't be bothered to create material, why should a student be forced to wade through it?

This also applies to other social spheres.

If people are sending AI generated/doctored photos, is there a point to sharing your own? If people are sending AI generated messges in chat, is there a point to writing your own messages? If all of the other body builders are taking growth hormones to bulk up, is there a point to being "natural?"

We have faux social platforms like Github, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, etc. The original point of these platforms is the human element. Teaching, just like these social platforms, lose the point if you are not interacting with outputs from the expected human.

I did an article on this on LinkedIn. At some point it will cause the humans to leave. I'm doing any possible future open source projects on Codeberg.

Microsoft owns GitHub, even if they hide their name. GitHub is free for many uses, which causes perverse incentives like many services you don't pay for. You see this from the heavy integration of Copilot, to the generation of tools that are intended to multiple your token usage like spec-kit to AI agents designed to handle the overflow of issues.... created by AI. It's all designed to facilitate huge AI usage instead of ergonomic development and human connections.

AI is coming for your personal photos. Eventually you will be looking at them and wondering which ones have actually happened. They will be devalued.

AI is coming for your personal conversation. You will not know if the person you are asking a question is actually responding. You will not know if something they say that is important actually has meaning.

GitHub is a social platform. Once it is AI all up the stack GitHub loses it's purpose. Mythos doing this is adding another layer to this problem.

Yes, there are those that love to shit on all of the other users with their AI slop in social settings. Thaey give you a queried AI answer when you are asking for primary information. There are those that give you fake photos. There are those that are pissed off that Codeberg is pushing out primarily Ai content.

There are so many of these fucker that say AI is the future and shit all over the people around them. That is why I believe communities will move to smaller spaces, forcing more self more personal responsibility.

Ah, so you are one of the people that we-who-are-not-using-AI are being forced to subsidize. You're talking about your own budget, but how about you pay me for the delta you caused on memory prices? There is no such thing as a free lunch and I want my money.

I'll reach out to you offline, I'm looking to get a new xbox.

In the last year I deleted all of my old open source projects. I'm doing some closed source work now on an app that isn't releases... and everything is yelling AI at you from GitHub to Gitlab. I may open source parts of this library at some point if they mature.

I'm begrudgingly on Bitbucket, but mentally ready to move if I find something new. Maybe I should take a look at codeberg again if I am ready to post a mix of open source and closed source. For those who don't know, Godeberg is a fork of Gitea after some kind of hostile takeover.

I would like to self host, but I don't know where I would setup a computer at the moment.

Yes, at some point things become uneconomical for commercial blurays to be pressed, like it or not. I think the future of physical games is likely cartridges because you can buy generic parts that get used for other things as people will always need memory.

However, I often talk about how the internet creates a perverse relationship between companies and users. If a company needs to pay money to host servers, they are incentivized to find offsets for the costs. There is a component of how companies train their users to consume their goods... a great example is the Android ecosystem where users have been trained not to pay for apps because of google ads. Platforms like Playstation have put their stores first on the UI to train users to buy from the online store and this has been a long term outcome. It is *not* just a thing of users not being interested in physical disks.

It's been a while coming, but we are finally starting to see the Big Tabacco moment for tech. We have no business placing faith in Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft or Apple as the financials do not match up for appropriate behavior around children.

While I believe that fair use laws only get you so far for pirating work.... there is a reason that AI companies pay licensing for news and other media. If you personally pirate work, you are more likely to be on the side of AI companies as they are now, though you should understand as the AI companies mature this gravy train will not continue indefinitely.

If you use subscriptions like Apple Music or Spotify, you already should know that these types of platform starve artists where they get an even smaller portion of the money than if you paid for an album. A million plays in a month is not enough to live on and AI is helping to expand this problem to other sources of media. It legitimately is a cause of concern for the health of content creators from news to movies to music.

One of the most visible effects of the internet taking over when you look back is how high budget music videos largely disappeared after the 2000's. There isn't the money to create them like that anymore. The money that went to labels is now going to tech companies and as fellow publicly traded companies they have an obligation to squeeze. Part of that squeeze is how tech companies have taught users to be transactional with artists, where people only stream or listen to single tracks.

There can be positive things from AI, but that is being drowned out from the negatives. These negatives will continue to drive negative sentiment. Those can try to make excuses, but we who are not using AI in our daily lives have to pay the subsidy for you people who are generating your cat fart pictures. My games are more expensive. Hard drives are more expensive. Basic utilities are going up in price. I think it is insightful for those having to pay for the people actively making our lives worse to say, "You should just go die in a corner." These are honest conversations.

Long term there are major benefits to society if they can drive down the cost of energy, cooling, and computational infrastructure to support democratized access to LLMs and diffusion models without bankrupting providers.

AI falls into a similar category as the benefits to society as Bitcoin, but at a much larger scale. Keep this in mind, AI is used for the things that we don't find important while also having a hazardous environmental footprint..

Here are some examples of things that people no longer find important.

• A replacement for social connections. (Fuck Slashdot?)
• Finding primary information, such as by browsing the web. (Fuck you AP, CBS, Fox etc? Fuck you web pages? Fuck you libraries?)
• Personal photos. Why have experience when AI can make better ones for you? Even if you aren't personally doing it, are other people tainting your photo library?

And this is the happy path. The point of these things are to get you on a subscription, and by extension try to you use to force other people on a subscription. The current AI chatbot approach is similar to social media where you have outcomes of ADHD behavior in children. These are all engagement machines mean to progressively try to tangle them selves deeper and deeper into your life.

I would say you should probably kill yourself, but it sounds like you already aren't really living being excited for these things.. I do believe some of these AI CEOs will die for the abusively aggressive behavior and no way to opt out. Y'all intentionally creating an environment where children feel trapped and hopeless for a quick buck.

I think that this AI conversation is irrelevant as long as everything is rewritten into Rust. /runsaway

I think we are still going to see these kinds of errors making it through on AWS for a while. It's strange in that before AI, correctness seemed to be important for maintaining trust. It's even more strange in that in the competition for incorrect fuzzy answers, it's increasing the price of hardware for everyone. I can't help but think that there is no saving humans.

Is the cost of the Engineers really decreasing so much with AI that it offsets customer losses? Or is this a monopoly type of thing?