On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 06:54:46PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Proposal -- Interpretation of DFSG on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models"):
> > Why not? The entirety of law, politics, and civilization is designed by
> > humans, for humans. Free software is a movement of humans that attempts to
> > provide other humans with specific freedoms and guarantees around the
> > software they use. I don't work on free software because I want to make
> > something easier for Google's LLM. I work on free software because I want
> > to give freedom and control to human beings.
> >
> > We're the ones building the system. Why should we not design the system
> > for us, to help us, to make our lives better?
> >
> > The LLMs are by and large the creations of corporations because they have
> > collective resources that dwarf the resources of nearly all individual
> > humans. Where this line of reasoning goes in practice is to (further)
> > create a legal system that treats corporations and their tools as the most
> > important actors and humans as secondary material for corporations to
> > consume. We already have too much of that.
> >
> > We *absolutely* should base our rules on what's best for human beings, not
> > corporate constructs. That is the entire point of the free software
> > movement.
> *applause*
/me joins the cheering!
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