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A recent study ( https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646 ) uses the term “cognitive surrender” to describe the way humans tend to offload key critical thinking skills onto LLMs, even when the output is wrong.
Hey ! this is too much for my old tired brain.
Codeberg themselves are taking a stance against LLMs in their TOS.
I wish they’d made it even stricter. It’s not like there aren’t any code hosting platforms that are happy to both take it and push it on you.
I have been using a niche project and posting to its community for many years. Suddenly there was an influx of new users and people started “developing” apps with the help of LLMs, left and right. At first the community was skeptical, but not absolutely against it. The idea was that you still review everything, and also mention your use of LLMs for code generation.
Suddenly it all goes down the drain. An app that clearly can’t have been coded from scratch in such a short time is announced, no mention of LLM assist. Even asking for it is met with derision. “You don’t tell a carpenter not to use powertools, do you?” Larger ethical concerns are actively ignored, it’s all about painting me as a Luddite.
People just love shiny new apps for their niche OS, and those sensitive concerns are easily squashed.
That’s a very good summary, but left out: furthering the extreme inequality of wealth and power - to the detriment of almost everyone.
This is in my opinion at least the most important reason of the all. The electricity and water use isn’t that high compared to our general energy use and water waste, on the other hand, copyright is itself problematic as it just allows whoever can coerce people to sign over their copyrights (usually an employer) to have an intellectual monopoly. Not to say these reasons are invalid, but that they simply pale in comparison.
There are a lot of not that commonly mentioned reasons here, which is good, but the obvious power grab by the rich that this represents is probably the best reason of them all.
Thats what i find interesting about China offering free models that compete with the big companies. the restriction is still on power and computing, but its something we could do at a municipal or state level.
Related, an untrustworthy source that already has a cover for giving wrong information being controlled by a few entities who already lobby like crazy just being “trusted” to not use the platform for propaganda & misinformation.
