Re: Proposal -- Interpretation of DFSG on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models

Matthias Urlichs <[email protected]> writes:

> The problem is that all those missing factors are destined to go
> un-missing — and then what? We can't base our rules on biological
> exceptionalism.

Why not? The entirety of law, politics, and civilization is designed by
humans, for humans. Free software is a movement of humans that attempts to
provide other humans with specific freedoms and guarantees around the
software they use. I don't work on free software because I want to make
something easier for Google's LLM. I work on free software because I want
to give freedom and control to human beings.

We're the ones building the system. Why should we not design the system
for us, to help us, to make our lives better?

The LLMs are by and large the creations of corporations because they have
collective resources that dwarf the resources of nearly all individual
humans. Where this line of reasoning goes in practice is to (further)
create a legal system that treats corporations and their tools as the most
important actors and humans as secondary material for corporations to
consume. We already have too much of that.

We *absolutely* should base our rules on what's best for human beings, not
corporate constructs. That is the entire point of the free software
movement.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>