Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Proposal -- Interpretation of DFSG on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models"): > Why not? The entirety of law, politics, and civilization is designed by > humans, for humans. Free software is a movement of humans that attempts to > provide other humans with specific freedoms and guarantees around the > software they use. I don't work on free software because I want to make > something easier for Google's LLM. I work on free software because I want > to give freedom and control to human beings. > > We're the ones building the system. Why should we not design the system > for us, to help us, to make our lives better? > > The LLMs are by and large the creations of corporations because they have > collective resources that dwarf the resources of nearly all individual > humans. Where this line of reasoning goes in practice is to (further) > create a legal system that treats corporations and their tools as the most > important actors and humans as secondary material for corporations to > consume. We already have too much of that. > > We *absolutely* should base our rules on what's best for human beings, not > corporate constructs. That is the entire point of the free software > movement.
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