Post #2338689

2026-01-27 12:38 UTC

The #Enclosure feedback loop or how LLMs sabotage existing programming practices by privatizing a public good: “[…]something has been taken from the public. Not just the training data, but the public forums and practices that created this training data in the first place. […] LLM companies are now selling back to us something that used to be available for free.” https://michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-feedback-loop

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@slowtiger@berlin.social 2026-01-27 12:40

@johl@mastodon.xyz This is by no means new. I remember websites in the 90's for collecting and sharing sounds - you could upload anything you had recorded, and download and use sounds for your own purposes. Fast forward several years - by 2015 all of these websites either had vanished or only allowed to download sounds if you payed for it. I found my own sounds there!

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@Lucomo@social.anoxinon.de 2026-01-27 13:21

@johl@mastodon.xyz "If you keep using Stack Overflow, that data will be ingested for training by LLMs. Any kind of strategy based on openly sharing information will maintain the asymmetrical advantage enjoyed by the big corporate players. But not sharing information in the open will increase their advantage even more. It will handicap programmers who forego LLMs."

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