Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s said that technology and culture are moving so fast that we are "driving by looking in the rear view mirror"
Nothing says "I am slow on the draw" to me than "all of a sudden I'm worried about getting ripped off by Open AI" as the open source and web economies have long been recognized as exploitative
(1) This guy http://www.seobook.com/blog has been talking about how the Google economy has been rigged since at least 2010, and I can say that I've lived it.
(2) This cartoon https://xkcd.com/2347/ illustrates the hard time open source has sustaining itself. Open-source doesn't need to fund all the value-subtracting vultures that you need to sell enterprise software, but it struggles to scrape together just a few bucks for people who are capable of doing work on a shoestring.
(3) Open source licenses have been getting tougher for database products in particular because hosting a database like mysql is a great business for the likes of AWS or Azure which doesn't need to send a penny back to the creators and the GPL's copyleft doesn't do anything about it.
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I'd say also as a creative person everything I'm exposed to becomes part of my work, particularly when I am receptive and "on the make"; I think of the video for Groove Armada's Superstylin' [1] which is all about a person seeing everything in the environment and finding inspiration and using their talents to make other people's talents even greater. Don't laugh but my son and I got a lot of out the anime 2-5 d Seduction [2] because it is all about people of different generations, under pressure, figuring out how to blend their talents to compete and cooperate. So much of what I consume nourishes me, becomes part of me, and becomes part of what I create, not any different from a LLM.
Nothing says "I am slow on the draw" to me than "all of a sudden I'm worried about getting ripped off by Open AI" as the open source and web economies have long been recognized as exploitative
(1) This guy http://www.seobook.com/blog has been talking about how the Google economy has been rigged since at least 2010, and I can say that I've lived it.
(2) This cartoon https://xkcd.com/2347/ illustrates the hard time open source has sustaining itself. Open-source doesn't need to fund all the value-subtracting vultures that you need to sell enterprise software, but it struggles to scrape together just a few bucks for people who are capable of doing work on a shoestring.
(3) Open source licenses have been getting tougher for database products in particular because hosting a database like mysql is a great business for the likes of AWS or Azure which doesn't need to send a penny back to the creators and the GPL's copyleft doesn't do anything about it.
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I'd say also as a creative person everything I'm exposed to becomes part of my work, particularly when I am receptive and "on the make"; I think of the video for Groove Armada's Superstylin' [1] which is all about a person seeing everything in the environment and finding inspiration and using their talents to make other people's talents even greater. Don't laugh but my son and I got a lot of out the anime 2-5 d Seduction [2] because it is all about people of different generations, under pressure, figuring out how to blend their talents to compete and cooperate. So much of what I consume nourishes me, becomes part of me, and becomes part of what I create, not any different from a LLM.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kE0pxRkMtQ
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2.5_Dimensional_Seduction