It could be worse. They could conceivably resell some your credits to pay themselves a salary.
Whats the point of salary for ai? sounds stupid
The suggested salary is not for AI; it is for the project's owners.
Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?
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Re: Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?
#132Based on my understanding of Gas Town, Beads, and Yegge's philosophy on AI that he's expressed in a variety of media, everything about the whole stack is designed to burn tokens. If you're not burning tokens, real fast, 24/7, you're losing the race. The race to where, I have no idea. Apparently, that includes him burning your tokens, too.
I just had to post this somewhere in this thread, but I bought his Vibe Coding book after listening to him talk through it. I figured it would help me understand his approach and therefore help me get into the same mindset for vibe coding on a serious level. It was garbage. The book is largely written and edited by LLMs and it shows on every page. It was a slop how-to book without many useful gems on how to go about…
> I figured it would help me understand his approach
> It was a slop how-to book
So, it did.
Re: Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
this is why transparency matters with anything that touches cloud AI. if your routing user prompts through any API, users should know exactly whats being sent, where it goes, and whether it gets stored or used for training. Burying that in terms of service isnt good enough
No, users should demand it. For open source you get what you get and you don’t get upset. Has anyone ever sued an open source project?
The correct response to a morally/ethically-dubious open source project is naming and shaming, which this is.