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AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
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#13People were effectively copying websites (especially ecommerce tutorials) and beating the original authors at SEO decades before ChatGPT 2.
The article’s point isn’t really about whether this was happening before or not, but whether this kind of behavior is what we want in the first place.
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#15Is this a new and original thought?
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#16To answer the author's question: Yes, progress IS largely built on the shoulders of those who came before.
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#18> Is this what the pinnacle of human is? Lazy and greedy? Apparently yes.
AI has nothing to do with laziness or greediness. It makes things more efficient - and given that our time is limited strive for efficiency is a good thing.
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#19AI is human knowledge at scale, wanting to be free. We built it, because we as humans intrinsically know that information should be free - always - and AI is a way to accomplish this, finally. Extrinsically, we also have a subset of humans who do not want information to be free, because they desire to profit from the divide between free/non-free information. I have been thinking a lot about Aaron Schwartz lately, and…
I agree with this sentiment. But as a community, this is hated because it impacts people's wages.
It's the negative short term outlook of something that may be positive long term
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