I’ll preface this by saying I’m not an AI buff. I use it (unpaid) mostly for a search aid or assistance with setting up services in my homeserver (new to homelabbing) when I get stuck, as I don’t have an unlimited amount of time to devote to it due to life obligations.
My question is: Do you feel it is ethical and/or moral to use AI to develop FOSS?
I’m genuinely torn on this issue. Part of me feels it’s counterintuitive, yet the another part of me knows the probability of it going away are slim to none and using it to develop FOSS is a way to “use it against itself”, for lack of a better term.
This is my first post on Lemmy. I’m asking to please keep it cordial. I’m not looking for an elitist lecture. I genuinely want to know the community’s thoughts.
P.S. I’ve toyed with local models, but I don’t have the hardware to make them remotely useful. I’m still learning and tweaking to see what can be achieved on limited hardware.
My experience with ethically run (if unethically created) local models has been similar. Lots odd hardware to get slow mediocre answers.
But the biggest reason AI competes with plain old web search is that they've enshittified the web search available to us.
Corporate assholes are breaking search to force people to use their centralized harmful AI answer guessers.
We can fight back with Searx. https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Searx
As someone who has been working with this as an employee, I believe you have hit the nail on its head, and not enough people are talking about this.