Post #3858591
2026-07-16 11:51 UTC
if you depend on a secret machine, whose usage you rent from a secret factory, to write your code, you have become the downstream of an oracle that is now in control of you, it has become the new landlord of your skill, and you have also become its little pay piggie
Replies (4)
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@ruben@friendship.quest 2026-07-17 12:04
@mntmn@mastodon.social this is one of the most vivid images of the personal risk of llms, i’m in awe
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@mntmn@mastodon.social 2026-07-16 11:53
(sorry for revealing so many of my actual feelings today, i'm just a bit upset with things)
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@mawkernewek@toot.wales 2026-07-16 13:47
@mntmn@mastodon.social Isn't that the only hope the AI companies have left to be profitable, i.e. they would get a slice of every IP generated using it? However even this probably won't work as its only incidental AI slop clipart mostly.
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@lykso@tiny.tilde.website 2026-07-17 01:31
@mntmn@mastodon.social It's almost as if owning the means of production is important or something. Someone should write a book on that...