Thinking about "valid whataboutisms"- the internet was cool in part because you...
Thinking about "valid whataboutisms"- the internet was cool in part because you could find infinite material to read w/o paying for any of it. We collectively decided that text was worthless and no one who writes it should get paid. Should we be surprised that as soon as LLMs showed up, publishers switched to LLM text?
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The current solution is to find someone to hate, billionaires, that guy that is overly enthusiastic about agentic coding, project managers (okay, maybe that is fair). Hate them and imagine a world where the bad people will stop being bad and the bad effects of LLMs will go away.
No one want to think about what got us here- we want to read but not pay writers, we want to exploit knowledge workers.
Same goes for opensource software, no viable business model, but companies want open source developers to fix CVEs for free, ASAP. Kind of a deluded exploitation because the companies have no leverage to make maintainers do anything, aside from online bullying.