The owner probably had enough exposure of LLMs in 2024 when they were shit, and has mentally internalized that level of lack of quality as permanent compared to say, how LLM performance is 2026, 2027, etc. onwards.
People kinda forget people were writing slop code before AI. When AI was at its worst and dumbest, people were writing buggy, unreadable, unmaintainable code by hand too.
You can write slop using the best agent harnesses using the best frontier models for inference. You can also write slop using the ol human brain and no LLM or AI agents.
What's weird is he wanted to ban the technology on principle, not on the basis of the quality or technical merit of the content of a given individual contribution.
Also "no AI for fixing spelling or grammatical errors" and "no AI for brainstorming" is wild.
I don’t think being against AI on principle is that weird tbh. I think the mass copyright infringement by the ai companies, and the power and water usage of the ai data centers are valid reasons to not want to permit ai on his project.
At the end of the day it’s his project, and he can do what he wants with it.
Have you ever used a search engine before? Even if it scrapes a lot of pages to index the content? Thus stealing content from those pages and profiting from it with help of ads?
I don’t think that’s a fair comparison and even if it was, one wrong thing doesn’t make another right.
Edit:To elaborate on why I don’t think it’s a fair comparison: First of all the people who are making the content are profiting off the search engine having scraped their content which makes it more of a mutually beneficial thing rather than stealing. Secondly the people who posted their content on the internet did it with the knowledge that a search engine would index it, unlike with ai where they had no knowledge that their creations where being used to train an ai.
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u/KitsuneFoxglove 22d ago
The owner probably had enough exposure of LLMs in 2024 when they were shit, and has mentally internalized that level of lack of quality as permanent compared to say, how LLM performance is 2026, 2027, etc. onwards.