@adele@phpc.socialTo let AI scan or not: the dilemma of data exploitation and ethical contribution
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One critical decision for website owners is whether to allow AI to scan and use their content. This decision balances the risk of data exploitation with the potential to contribute to a larger pool of knowledge, albeit without personal acknowledgment. It’s essential to recognize that AI technology is ineluctable, shaping our digital experiences in profound ways
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@adele for a subtle POV on AI. We need more of those. Technophobia on the fedi is lame.
I think part of the solution is reciprocity. I'm OK with you scraping my content/the web as a commons as long as the derived work is a common too.
@lutindiscret @adele Yeah, man, some of us who’ve been making things with computers for longer than some folks have been alive are “technophobes” because we happen to object to corporate enclosure of the sum total of human effort so fucking billionaires can become fucking trillionaires all while destroying the one habitat we have to quench the thirst of their bullshit machines. Excellent take.
@adele Good points here. While coding i benefit from AI, so i let them crawl my technical blog. In the framework world i think it is even essential that your docs are ingested by AI and should be optimized in this regards. However on creative work I am a rather reluctant.
@adele this makes sense if we start from the assumption that "AI is an ineluctable part of our future" but reasonable people can disagree on it.
Right now we are in a bubble that puts AI in every product. The results are sometimes good, sometimes bad.
I don't think AI is completely going away (it can be a good fit for certain tasks) but I wouldn't expect it to become as ubiquitous as promised by its enthusiasts