This is a long text article about my discussion with Claude about linux and MacOS

[highplainsdem]

24. I first got a computer and first got online in the 1980s, before there was a world wide web, so I've

seen those changes. I have nothing against technology that's helpful if it doesn't create a lot of new problems - as genAI does - and if it isn't inherently unethical - as genAI is.

I don't understand how anyone who knows the genAI industry is completely built on theft can feel at all comfortable using it, voluntarily, unless on some level they've convinced themselves that the theft doesn't matter as much as their personal convenience. Or they've decided that since much of the theft already took place (though it's continuing every minute) that they might as well take advantage of it.

I know too many people whose work was stolen to train AI, and too many who have already lost income because of it, to think that theft should ever be ignored for the sake of convenience.

And since you're a musician, I'd think that the genAI industry's theft of all the copyrighted music they could get to, so they could produce tools to allow non-musicians to churn out millions of tracks of fake music and flood platforms and try to steal attention from real musicians, would make it impossible for you to feel comfortable using genAI.

GenAI's value is not in the tech itself. The value it offers people comes from the theft of all that intellectual property. The misappropriation of humanity's knowledge and culture.

And again...there are all those other problems this type of AI creates.