• kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    This is why I said anything built on public work, should be public goods as well.

    What if I don’t want certain people to build on my work, or to constrain the ways in which the build on it? (Non-commercial, share-alike, attribution, etc. clauses) Should I be able to?

    That’s not a good comparison. Crypto was a (bad) solution looking for a problem. GenAI already has use-cases.

    I didn’t mean to compare the technology – though there are some similar scam vectors, but that’s a different conversation.

    I meant that there was a strong contingent of crypto fans back then who were saying – correctly – that “the mainstream system is corrupt and wields legislation as a weapon against consumers”. But their proposed alternative was a system that removed all regulation, including consumer protections.

    I worry that there’s a trend in tech circles today that echoes that sentiment when it comes to AI.

    I’m also rather disappointed that a substantial group of people who I used to assume I was aligned with – pirates and open-sourcerers – turned out to only be there for the free shit and not for the ethos.

    An ethos which, to me, is something like: everyone has a right to participate in culture and be a part of the conversation, and everyone has a duty to acknowledge the work that enabled their own and do their best to be a good custodian of the upstream works.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      What if I don’t want certain people to build on my work, or to constrain the ways in which the build on it? (Non-commercial, share-alike, attribution, etc. clauses) Should I be able to?

      No. The idea that someone should be allowed to control what others do with their expressions and ideas is a very new concept (~100 years) and it has not brought any benefit to society