2026-10-02 07:05 UTC
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@farseen@fedi.nptr.xyz 2026-10-02 07:13
@reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social I think we need to further dissect this argument, because if this were the case then the problem can be solved if we just stop treating it as the authority of knowledge. It still doesn't answer why is it wrong to generate code in a company where it will be proprietary anyway. Why is it different from a tractor or power loom in this case? It still feels gut-wrenchingly wrong, but I'm not able to articulate it. It still feels wrong, on top of the ecological damage, or plagiarism. Is it just, maybe we shouldn't have built tractors or power looms? Which takes away the agency from the labour class to the capital class? A labourer who used to be able to make fabric at his own home, now has to rent an expensive power loom or work at a power loom fabric factory at a much lower wage. Part of the value created flows to the capitalist, just because he happens to own capital. Am I realising this only now because I'm the victim this time? @celesteh@hachyderm.io @knowprose@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social