I won't upload any of my writing to the web anymore until this is all sorted out.
You can make fun of me all you like, but it's taken me decades to get good at this, and I'll be damned if some soft-skinned SV kid with a MacBook uses my work to power his mill.
When I felt like writing again after years of closing my previous blog, it though about it for a while before committing to https://bitecode.dev.
But eventually, I realized that
- I also write for myself, not just for others.
- People like reading things without having to prompt for it. So they will read the blog because it's nice and topics come to them even if they don't think that they need to know.
- ChatGPT doesn't have opinion. It tries very hard to be balanced. Your blog will have an opinion.
- There is more to the experience you provide than just knowledge. You can add tools, exercises, videos, etc. Which GPT cannot, for now, replicate.
- GPT can replicate style, but will not by default. People will come for your style as well. And pics. And design. And jokes.
- People value the interaction they feel when they content seems like there is a person behind it. They get attached. They develop sympathy.
- A blog puts things in context. "If you want to know that, you probably need to know that". It also gives information about what happen right now.
- Humans curate. In a world where creating crappy content is very cheap, a good filter has tremendous value.
So yes, you will be scanned, and replicated. Doesn't mean you don't have value in writing what you do.
And making something of value is nice.
This may change in 10 years or so. Maybe the LLM will be able to do all that. But depriving yourself of a rewarding experience right now for the fear of what might happen is not worth it.
I agree with you. Programmers at these AI companies basically create a wealth concentration mechanism that diverts the money resulting from the value of our work into their pockets.
Sometimes I'm thinking about publishing AI generated content that is clearly labeled as such. Just to make the anyone who scrapes it to train their model a little bit worse.
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
Those that do make fun of you are victim blaming. A lot of these folks stating that if you put out in the public then it's not yours anymore sound like criminals to be fair.
Techno communism essentially. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". And just like that type of economic setup a handful of bros will reap the benefits - in this case sam altman's clique and others like them.
Private companies abusing works shared in good faith for free in order to profit is like communism? I'm sorry, that's just absurd "anything I don't like is communism"-level thinking. These are organizations operating under the incentives of capitalism to achieve the goal of capitalism (and lots of tech enthusiasts trying to come up with post-hoc justifications for the shiny new toy).
You can make fun of me all you like, but it's taken me decades to get good at this, and I'll be damned if some soft-skinned SV kid with a MacBook uses my work to power his mill.