The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair
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The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair
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Re: The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair
#2I definitely see where he is coming from, but his response was pretty bad. Seems like he has anti-ai psychosis that went way too far.
This gives similar energy to that guys npm package that deleted Russian users computers. Overall not a great look and any difficulty with job searching/conferences is probably well deserved.
Re: The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair
#3I definitely see where he is coming from, but his response was pretty bad. Seems like he has anti-ai psychosis that went way too far. This gives similar energy to that guys npm package that deleted Russian users computers. Overall not a great look and any difficulty with job searching/conferences is probably well deserved.
That's the real problem.
No one can predict the upper bound of what he'll do for the sake of "the right thing", and his specific concept of it goes beyond relatively universal principles, so the risk of relying on his work is unbounded.
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#4Re-posting my previous comment when this first came up.
"We built a machine that takes everything everyone published online for free and regurgitates it while taking up $1T of combined investments and energy/water costs and we promise to make your job obsolete. And oh yeah we need your mum's retirement funds to keep going."
Yes, that's amazing. Let's go. Full speed ahead, we need to take this as far as we can.
"My little library prints some funny text to stdout."
Oh no that's too dangerous why would anyone risk their reputation like that.
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#5The intent of the line is so transparent I’m really not sure what the author is getting at here, fork and move on.
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#6>Throughout my adult life I’ve always been keen on doing the right thing.
The right thing being, in this foss context even, to poison the contributions you make to the human technical and cultural record.
Seems more like petty vandalism.
Re: The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair
#7I definitely see where he is coming from, but his response was pretty bad. Seems like he has anti-ai psychosis that went way too far. This gives similar energy to that guys npm package that deleted Russian users computers. Overall not a great look and any difficulty with job searching/conferences is probably well deserved.
Or maybe it's you who has AI psychosis?
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#8>Throughout my adult life I’ve always been keen on doing the right thing. The right thing being, in this foss context even, to poison the contributions you make to the human technical and cultural record. Seems more like petty vandalism.
What's poisoned? There's a disclaimer that coding agents shouldn't touch it and some prompt injection stuff that honestly AIs should have defenses for already before you're letting them work with third party code. Nothing really gets damaged?
Even if the prompt actually did work it would just stop the agent from implementing this specific testing framework, which is on the level of making your library incompatible with another or something.
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#9Unpopular opinion I imagine, but this is an awesomely Bureau of Sabotage thing to do. Jorj X. McKie would approve.
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#10Some people are chattering like this is malware, but it's just text on stdout. Mechanistically I don't think it's in the same class as malware, it is at worst an _opinion_. The fact that LLMs are structurally incapable of separating user instructions from content is an issue with LLM design, not the responsibility of anyone voicing an opinion in a project they run.