thinking about the differences in outlooks between people which have been exposed by genAI, and i think one part may just come down to whether you intuitively use a labor theory of value to appraise and attribute works. i do, so i feel the scraping and mechanical abstraction of others' effort might be some form of plagiarism or theft. to others, though, it is the marginal utility gained by the appropriation of that effort which justifies apportioning rewards to those who do so
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@mattskala are you saying that i'm lacking in self-awareness by including my own opinion in my analysis? i'd argue that doing so demonstrates a greater awareness of what my opinion is, given that it's very relevant to the analysis
@mattskala also i use the term 'theft' only semi-seriously there. i think it's supposed to jump out of the paragraph a little like a nail that hasn't fully been hammered in. i can see justifications for pulling it, or hammering it in all the way, but the juxtaposition i think gets at some kind of internal conflict i have over my own views, since it's a moderately extreme word
@jk Only if you intended that analysis to be balanced. If it's something else, then it may be fine at being that.
whenever we are taught, or learn, or create something based on the work of others, we are, in some way, benefitting from their effort, whether it be the conference speaker you listened to, or the linesman who ensured the electricity supply to your computer. if you study the design of a bass guitar, perhaps you may be appropriating the work of its builder when building your own. but none of these examples seem close to the kind of industrial-scale commodification we're talking about here
@jk That's like saying "the difference is between people who think theft is wrong, and those who don't." No hope of really understanding both points of view when you use the loaded terminology preferred by one of them in your definition of the other.