Jared White ✌️ [HWC]

Grand Poobah of the Human Web Collective

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  • It is still trained on open source code on GitHub. These code communities seemingly have no way to opt out of their free (libre) contributions being used as training data, nor does the resulting code generation contribute anything back to those communities. It is a form of license stripping. That’s just one issue.

    Just because your inference running locally doesn’t use much electricity doesn’t mean you’ve sidestepped all of the other ethical issues surrounding LLMs.







  • Sorry, are you talking about MCP, or AP? I don’t know why any usage of PieFed (what I’m using) or Lemmy would require MCP.

    MCP as a way to make agents appear smart is a smoke screen. We already have APIs to enable different online applications to talk to each other, it’s called REST, or Hypermedia if you want to get real fancy. We don’t need yet another layer on top that obscures web properties and places them behind chatbots benefiting Big Tech megacorps and nobody else.