TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, they destroy the bargain that made free software spread like wildfire.

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[–] 9 points 10 months ago

AI as a tool for unleashing the devastating power of unregulated capitalism against its enemies, what a brilliant coup by the techbros and banksters. Not to mention the actual breakdown of community sites by AI scrapers, mostly using dirty botnet hacking techniques. This poison will eat itself one way or another. The question is: what can we do to make this happen sooner than later?

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