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by doug_durham 735 days ago
This is a reductive interpretation. If I create a modify a photo using Photoshop I'm creating. If I use ChatGPT to help write some code for a hobby project, I'm creating. These are just tools for creating like all other tools that came before. I'm not quite sure what the moral panic is about.
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model-15-DAV 735 days ago
Yeah, I am not against using tools of production. My problem is with ownership. You do not own the product you create with Photoshop[1], and you do not even own Photoshop anymore! It's all leases and terms of 'service' and no ownership of software.

Users of ChatGPT are serfs not owners. Their use of ChatGPT provides value to ChatGPT the corporation. Today we live in techno-feudalism[2], and not a time of tech ownership. So the serf gets wheat and cattle, the king stays in his castle.

I am against that these tools are actually tools of consumption. I am for software production ownership.

[1]: https://hothardware.com/news/adobe-responds-to-creator-outra... [2]: Yannis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister, coined the term.

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