incredible take from one of the GNU maintainers, seriously
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@ariadne
Be coherent and stop using your computer that is built thanks to slavery. Otherwise things shouldn't be like that necessarily, computers could be built in a sustainable way and without slave work, LLMs could be trained without spending humongous amounts of energy and without using stolen data. The campaign to blame technology itself diverting attention from technofeudal lords and the way they are making and using that technology is disgusting.
@ariadne "the only thing that matters is the code. Not the people, no. Just the code. The code must be free. The people? Fuck the people."
GNU maintainers, Take on slavery
Some are absolute fscking assholes and should, as a fitting answer to such a statement _ be enslaved for life.....
@ariadne Anything is deemed acceptable, as long as it serves the cult.
I wonder for how long more won't be recognized that even good intentions, and movements for freedom, can easily derail into cultism.
If you read well the statements of the founders, decades ago, the seed had been planted.
@ariadne ???? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
@ariadne Chrst this email thread is something
@ariadne "freedom ain't free" ahh statement qwq
@ariadne
Yes crazy, or a lost idiot in the team...
@ariadne Just to be clear, this would probably be a crime in both the UK and USA under modern slavery laws.
@ariadne gonna recommend punching both the asker and the askee here
@ariadne so desperate to rip off other people's work off that they're willing to justify slavery to do it
@ariadne They've been very consistent when it comes to software freedom over any particular set of ethics.
like regardless of what you feel about LLMs, it is very easy to just do/say anything other than "contributions resulting from slavery are good, actually"
@ariadne I feel that’s the point. There are mountains of tech people salivating at the restoration of slavery.
And it would be, because at some point people would start to be managed through LLM’s. But at that point the bros are already referring to and treating these machines as slaves.
What that will do to our society will not be pretty. No terminology borrowed from slavery should ever be used, not even for machines, because of what it will do to us!
@ariadne Whats the outrage? Arent most of us profiting from slavery in third world countries currently?