Just seeing the list here: https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
I don’t know what to think about it, many incredible open-source projects went downhill, some worse than others, full AI permission usage and some of them even advertise AI providers on README.md. I’m even using many of them myself.
Even the good guys are falling, I’m not sure what to think about it. Am I overreacting maybe?
You might think, that’s fine, not a big deal, some of them just allow AI usage, but not AI generated code, but for how long? If you allow use of AI for anything the tendency is that you’ll be even more open about it in the future.
List of projects that personally draw my attention or I use eventually:
- Firefox: not unexpected, but still, I had hope on Mozilla bring more tech awareness on mainstream
- Spaceship prompt: I use this on my terminal for customization, why’d you need AI for such a simple project?
- VLC: just sad
- curl: sad x 10
- Vim: sad x 20
- zoxide: they literally promoting AI providers in the README, such a simple tool as well, why?
- CoMaps/Organic Maps/OsmAnd: the few ones providing a good alternative to Google Maps
- Element: that’s literally the most used client for Matrix I guess?
- Python: I thought they were the good guys as well
- Lemmy: unexpected, code of conduct says it’s allowed
- Linux: the final boss, unbelievable
Is there any hope at all? Or am I just overreacting?
Some things by nature cause more harm than good. Like nuclear weapons and AI. It doesn’t matter if they have some beneficial uses when any use also has some negative consequences and it’s far more tempting for people to misuse them.
It’s way more complex. Certainly new tecnology can be misused, but this isn’t the problem of the tecnology, but one of the people or companies. A car is usefull for a lot of people, despite there are idiots using it to drive one with 120 kmh in a residencial zone. Nuclear energy can be used for weapons but also for cancer treatments in medicine or engines in space probes. Without AI a lot of things, materials and even medicine which you use currently every day wouldn’t exist, climate investigation would be impossible in realtime,etc. Not only some things are positive, a lot of it is, bad are some things by it’s use which some made of it.
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/15-times-to-use-ai-and-5-not-to
You misunderstood. Because human nature is as it is, any way you try to manage it many technologies will be used for bad far more than they are used for good. And even people attempting to use technology for good usually end up causing more bad than good because those technologies have unintended consequences. Usually because they are unnatural and take us away from our natural environment and behaviors that we are finely tuned for.
Things were a lot better 100 or 200 years ago. People were happier even if they had less by materialistic measures. I really don’t care about modern materials, medicine or climate investigation. I just want to be left alone and live the way I was designed to live, not in some sterilized padded room where all my material needs are met and I never get sick. Diseases, injuries and hunger are part of life and I’d much rather get sick and die living freely in the forest than live as a comfy pet.
This is spot on for me too.
Whether it is my non nuerotypical attributes, or the (god aweful) way I was raised seeing so much suffering, I have always craved community, and humanity. I crave humanity, and delight myself in small good things humans do. That’s what keeps me alive and going.
This tool, tech, whatever… Im so tired of saying those letters… it is appearing to me, to be antithesis to humanity… and earth as a whole. Im not even done being mad plastics are used so irresponsibly, and now we (I am from the fucking US) are going to add even more issues in multiple ways. HELL, MANUFACTURING IS STILL DIRTY AF and so what, let’s add more? More fucking garbarge for the earth and planet that gives me and everyone life? Humans are mucking up what I absolutely fucking cherish, all while treating eachother, and everyone/thing else, like fucking shit. fuck heirarchy. This is only happening for profit, not because we want to meet human needs, it is entirely profit driven. Money is god and im not here for that.
Two bunnies and one groundhog live in my small yard. I often see them have breakfast in the mornings. I dont keep an american style lawn. There’s food there for them, I enjoy things like this a lot. When the majority of humanity seems to crave convience plastic and now convience tools (thought machine? idea generator? human replacer?) over actual human connectivity and human craftmanship… I … dont feel like I belong. Incomming depression. I dont get it. I want to love our plantet and actually take care of it properly, and sustain. Treat eachother well. I was taught to leave a place better than you found it, and to be kind, you grow up, and who the hell is kind? Not the people putting datacenters up, that’s for sure.
and there are so many people who dont care about our planet being a mess and overconsume like it is normal.
You’d think we had enough recorded history to figure out how to do this human shit responsibly.
I was never into community, nature or human interaction but even an emotionless former technophile introvert like me or Ted Kaczynski can see how bad technology has made things and how much worse it’s going to get and realize actually community, nature and human interaction are more important than so-called progress, efficiency, comfort, material goods or really anything else. I think anyone can see this but depending on predispositions it may take more or less life experience and study.