My intention isn’t to be confrontational, though I am genuinely perplexed, and that’s probably what you’re reading.
Meanwhile...
Ipso facto, for all the AI “Akshually” pedants, I’ve tagged this as AIP. Politely go fuck yourselves :)
“Fork it, fix it or fuck it” - dealers choice :)
Got dunked on for AI slop despite explicitly marking which parts were AI-assisted
I get it - Lemmy hates AI in any capacity.
Anyway:
On regret: why should anyone “regret” using a tool? If we need to take moral consideration into tool use… well…should we regret using mobile phones? I would argue they are just as reprehensible.
I think you're finally getting to the realization: doing things without considering the moral or ethical implications is inherently, uhhh, immoral and unethical. Do you do more good than bad with your smartphone? Does it use thousands of watts (hours) every time you use it? Do you replace your phone every year with the new model, maximizing your environmental impact with the manufacturing? What do you think makes using a smartphone just as bad as using an LLM?
Look, I get it: considering all of the consequences of your actions all of the time is tiring. I don't like doing it either. Clearly companies don't do it at all (at least not for external consequences). Look where that has got us. Apathy is not an option.
If a dev used a local model to spelunk the codebase and write the documentation, would that sit better? Why? I’m not sure the line is where people think it is.
Local models are better in many ways, yes. The local user has control over how much power they use (for the query, not on training), other resource usage (water, electrical power sources), what model (and by extent the training data it uses), and exactly what documentation they get out (depending on the query/ies). The best option is still obviously to write the documentation yourself, as the subject-matter expert.