You raised very good points, however, what you typed negatively affects the shell game (as to what "AI" companies are often really doing) and partial pyramid scheme.
People seem not to realize that AI companies can not only plagiarize someone's original source code, but any source code that people connected to it are feeding and uploading to it. The shell game is taking Tom's code (with a few changes) and feeding it to Bill (based on prompts given). Both Tom and Bill are paying fees to the AI company, yet don't realize their code (along with many others) can be spit back at them.
You, the humans, are doing a lot of the work, and many don't realize it. Because Tom is not realizing someone has or is working on something similar. The AI company is connecting Tom and Bill together, without either of them realizing it. If they type in the right prompt, the search then feeds back that info. It's not the only thing going on or only way things work, but it is part of it, that is often not publicly acknowledged.
Exactly. Part of that can also be about who and how a site is run. Backdoor deals, personal preferences by those in control, organizations that make dominating discussions and votes a priority, etc...
The AI companies are arguably taking taxpayers (via electric bills) on a ride. A lot of the code, which people get fooled into thinking are AI "solutions", is code already written by humans or even stolen by disregarding licenses and copyright. A problem not just in programming, but widely complained about by book authors and artists.
The "AI" makes a few changes of the free content it sucked up, then gives it back based on correct prompts, for a fee. They got it for free, but you will pay a fee. If it is not something simple, it's often riddled with errors or takes a huge numbers of prompts to get it right. So some time was saved in typing, but then lost in code review and fixing errors. Humans that can understand what they are doing, troubleshoot, and architect are still needed.
What was really "shady": 1) Attempts by competitors and their minions to blank out any supporters or positive news on V. 2) Mass shadowbanning and banning of V supporters, while censoring lots of positive coverage. 3) Tipping the scales (also reflected in downvoting), by allowing lies and even direct slander from known persons of competing organizations (languages even on their profiles), while they pushed what looked like HN "favored" or "protected status" languages.
Arguably, only the explosion of AI slop (maybe it's more profitable), has slowed down the outrageous bombardment of Zig and Rust peddling. Languages which are not even in the top 10, but one would not have known that, by the number of previous HN headlines.
Wikipedia has a number of notorious and strange editors who have taken it over as if it was their personal kingdom, where they censor and revert at their pleasure. It's their Wikipedia versus for the public. MrOllie is among the most infamous (somehow has over 258,000 edits - WTH) of this type of editor (or sadistic censor), with a number of articles and posts elsewhere on the Internet about him[1][2].
Complaints about him seem to do nothing, as he appears to have support and students of his brand of sadism and censorship. For instance, Remsense (over 97,000 edits). The group that they are part of, backs each other up and gangs up on others, to make sure they'll get their way.
People seem not to realize that AI companies can not only plagiarize someone's original source code, but any source code that people connected to it are feeding and uploading to it. The shell game is taking Tom's code (with a few changes) and feeding it to Bill (based on prompts given). Both Tom and Bill are paying fees to the AI company, yet don't realize their code (along with many others) can be spit back at them.
You, the humans, are doing a lot of the work, and many don't realize it. Because Tom is not realizing someone has or is working on something similar. The AI company is connecting Tom and Bill together, without either of them realizing it. If they type in the right prompt, the search then feeds back that info. It's not the only thing going on or only way things work, but it is part of it, that is often not publicly acknowledged.
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