r/whenthe • u/VVP12 :3 • 16h ago

r/whenthe mfs complaining about everything Claude made it

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u/MaddMax92 13h ago

People don't solely complain about ai slop because of quality concerns. I'm sure you know full well what their actual moral objections are.

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u/GreenHouseofHorror 12h ago edited 12h ago

Most of the moral objections are either plagiarism or environmental.

Plagiarism is less of an issue with code, for various reasons. Not none, but certainly less.

And the environmental issues are very nuanced. The amount of AI use means the total impact is truly massive. But individual instances of it are often dramatically more efficient than the old fashioned way of doing things.

Lots more non-moral objections exist of course. But they tend to be of a piece with any time the barrier to entry to a field is lowered massively. We have a huge curation problem now. But it's not the first time. In a sense reddit is one previous answer to the curation problems the internet posed.

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u/Gros_Boulet 11h ago

No, the biggest non moral objection is this:

Now every week there is a billionaire publishing in his newspapers articles about how we gotta loose our jobs and die of thirst because his AI needs it more than us.

And the job is done worst at more cost.

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u/GreenHouseofHorror 11h ago

That seems like both a moral objection, and one that fits under environmental concerns.

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u/Gros_Boulet 5h ago

I didn't know survival was a moral concept these days.

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u/GreenHouseofHorror 4h ago

You... don't think advocating against the survival of people is a moral position?