Post #3470329

2026-06-29 13:25 UTC

RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116832387648136125 I'll say this again, louder for the folks in back: When you use commercial LLM tools, including freely available "open weight" models trained by assorted companies on God-knows-what data sets, this is the kind of industry you support. The commercial LLM providers do not care about the damage they inflict on anyone or anything else. They don't care about the impact that LLM usage has had on FOSS community development practices. They do not care about impact of scraping on web sites. They certainly do not care about the impact of causing RAM, storage, and power prices to increase because of their insatiable need for all of those things.

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@MaddieM4@raphus.social 2026-06-29 15:11

@jzb@hachyderm.io it's as simple as this: tech is only partially secured and built via things like cryptography. A large part of it is human trust and informal standards of behavior. It works largely on the basis of being good neighbors with each other, and dissociating with entities who cause problems for the community. The AI industry are bad neighbors, and they will continue to be until they're too broke to hurt anybody.

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@troed@swecyb.com 2026-06-29 14:48

@jzb@hachyderm.io "They don't care about the impact that LLM usage has had on FOSS community development practices." More open source software being made with better security than before? There's no use trying to portray LLMs as only having negative effects on FOSS.

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@larsmb@mastodon.online 2026-06-29 13:41

@jzb@hachyderm.io The major commercial OSS providers *also* do not care about this as much as they should, sooo

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@violetmadder@kolektiva.social 2026-06-29 14:48

@jzb@hachyderm.io Oh, they care, alright. They're doing this shit ON PURPOSE.

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@gimulnautti@mastodon.green 2026-06-29 18:40

@jzb@hachyderm.io They are probably going to want to keep RAM prices going up. They’ll just print money via private investment banks to do it. God forbid, you would run your own systems and not buy time slices from all the data centers they need to build!

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