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One of the reasons is that the company can later close up the effort, completely destroying the future potential helping part of it.

But at the end of the day, I understand that altruism doesn't work this way. But this just means that while I have some tendencies, I'm not altruistic after all. I attach a lot of feelings to where my work ends up and how it affects things, which is, for example, why I like "sticky" licenses like the GPL, and tend toward efforts like the Effective Altruism, however ineffective I think they end up being.

>I honestly don't understand the hostility towards llms using public data

So, getting back to the topic, feelings are attached to where the publications end up and how it affects things. Because of the unintended consequence of companies training AI on publicly available data, people harboring these feelings feel like their thing has been taken from them without their consent. And that is a bad feeling, powerless, inability, and one of the ways of coping with that is coping with it on the outside, directing the feeling outward, whereby it becomes active defense, or hostility.




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