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

Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Proposal -- Interpretation of DFSG on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models"):
> 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.

*applause*