I have always thought that copyright on code is a bit pointless. Its like copyrighting engineering formulas and calculations. Given a particular problem, there are obvious solutions. The process should not be copyrightable.

I am also anti-copyrighting of features and ideas.

The only thing that should be copyrightable is the result of an technological or human investment, not the process and method for getting there.

That and copyright protection period should be shorter and non renewable.

Thats a good one. Sounds like a good start for some legislation.

You need to divorce your thinking of AI as a current prominent manifestation of the capitalistic black hole and the technology itself. Before that is was Crypto. Before that it was cloud, before that it was property derivatives. Capitalism will just hijack anything where they can extract value from the quickest.

AI as a technology is very much real and very much physical, it follows the same physical rules that everything else is. Denying that is like saying steam power is not real because you can’t see the force pushing.

AI has been around for 50 years now. Its driven much of engineering progress in the 70s and 80s, our chemical and biological research in the 90s and physics in the 2000s.

The current large language learning models are just a next progression of this technological trend.

Remember absolutism is toxic.

Would you say the same of electricity? There is no way to use it responsibly because its all based on exploitative resource extraction?

I take it you think the only use for a microwave is to cook babies?

Just because you could not find a use for it, does not mean millions of other people have not.

Just like any technology. you can use it responsibly or irresponsibly.

It can if you control the training data, or if the data is public domain.

But I get your point. You can say all the Diamonds you use are conflict free, but out of the thousands you have, how do you know some have not slipped in.

At what point do you say you did a good enough job, and at what point is it too contaminated?

Like many things, it difficult to draw a line, so its up to communities to set a reasonable standard.

Debian for servers and fedora for desktop for me.

Some people I will put on Mint for desktop use, if they are super non-technical.