alt Hacker NewsI mean, hasn't it always been this way? If something valuable is within reach and you disclose it, someone else might reach for it?
Just because the length of the arm is longer with an AI org doesn't mean it's somehow fundamentally a different system.
The future is that if you don't use AI your work is a lot easer to reach against someone else who has it.
That dude hand writing code with punchcards can be lapped by a 20yo with python, what's different?
The difference is no one writes punchcards so the comparison is inapt. It is more like supposing AI eats everything humans attempt to do. They will take your work as you are working on it, any interaction at all. It is meta-plagiarism, on another level.