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AI and I
half/byte
v0.1 (April 2026)
Hey, halfbyte, what do you think about AI?
Setting aside the
Ethical, Economical, Ecological
Issues
Well, actually
Ethical issues
Economical issues
Ecological issues
Ethics in AI
The DAIR would like to have a word.
Copyright / Licensing
Abusive behaviour
Psychology
Data labeling
Copyright
/
Licensing
"It's on the internet, so"
"Licensing terms do not work, so"
So, Copyright.
Aaron Swartz
AI ingestion
Fair use?
WHA??!
Well, actually
(Harry Potter is a bad example. Yet here we are.)
Settlements
DMCA takedown of
Claude Code mirrors
Irony is dead
Conclusion
Copyright is for rich people
Copyright
/
Licensing
Licensing?
What's the currency of Open Source?
Attribution!
¯\
(ツ)
/¯
Relicensing
"Clean Room"
Conclusion
"Interesting"
Copyright / Licensing
Abusive behaviour
Psychology
Data labeling
Abusive behaviour
Abusive Crawling
Ask Codeberg
PR slop
Security slop
Copyright / Licensing
Abusive crawling
Psychology
Data labeling
Psychology
The syncophantic bot
Power phantasies
Old man yells at bots
Steve Yegge is not well.
Copyright / Licensing
Abusive crawling
Psychology
Data labeling
Data labeling
Sweat shops. (Again)
Ethical issues
Economical issues
Ecological issues
Economics
(The Ed and Tante part)
Investment scams
Profitability
Automation dividend
Investment scams
Circular Investments
Inflated Value
Large part of the stock market
Pension funds via ETF's etc.
Large part of the "economy"
Incentive to prop it up
Military deals
Still!
Cracks appear
Datacenter deals
Where are all of these cards?
What blows up first?
Ah, the fun of growing up in the 80's
Investment scams
Profitability
Automation dividend
Profitability
(Sorry for the bad joke)
$200 Claude code
Let the squeeeeeeze begin
"It will get more efficient"
Incentives?
Investment scams
Profitability
Automation dividend
Automation Dividend
Let's talk about the Luddites
Luddites were (and are) not anti tech
Who gets to keep the dividend?
A (very) brief history lesson
WTF happened in 1971?
Social contracts broken
"Trickle Down economics"
So, through this lens
AI as extractive technology
But what about local models
Eh, about that...
Tech and class solidarity
Ethical issues
Economical issues
Ecological issues
Ecology
Power
Water
Space
Power
Gigaflops?
Gigawatts!
Let's burn
more
fossil fuels
"But renewables"
"But Nucular"
"But Nuclear"
Power
Water
Space
Water
Why, tho?
Evaporation cooling
Remember!
Gigawatts!
Power
Water
Space
The Two Spaces
Vulnerable Communities
The "other" Space
Darn Physics
Investment scams!
Setting aside the
Ethical, Economical, Ecological
Issues
Okay, fine, you get 10 minutes
LLMs/ Agentic coding
Seems to work okay for particular use cases
Software-Engineer > Prompt-Engineer
Prompt-Engineer & QA Engineer
Anyway. Let's assume it works
What does this do to teamwork
We're shuffling constraints around
(Surprise: The constraints do not go away)
Probably not great for the hard, interesting stuff
"Interesting" new attack vectors
I'm sure this is unrelated
I'm sure this is unrelated
But look at this explosion of new, surprising, wonderful and useful apps!
Outlook
No, not this one
AI and I
As with every AI hype cycle, some things will stay
Hopefully:
less toxic
less damaging
less centralized
less extractive
In the short term
Things will get worse
Sam, Dario, Elon, Sundar, Satya, Mark and Andy (or Jeff) are not your friends
Your friends are your friends
Be kind.
Be solidaric.
Be critical.
Capitalism sucks, man.
Thank you.
me@halfbyte.org
@halfbyte@ruby.social
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