> It seems to me like he started out mad and looked to justify it.
Yes, but that's neither surprising nor a reason to dismiss the anger. People get angry about DRM schemes in video games, even if the slowdown these cause is practically imperceptible. They're angry -- and Gruber acknowledges that factor too -- because a stranger manipulates what they regard as their own domain, without consent by or benefit to the owner.
It might be another instance of consequentialism vs. honor ethics. Many consequentialists don't seem to understand that something that doesn't have demonstrable consequences can still have moral implications.
> People get angry about DRM schemes
Yes but thats a thing that degrades something in a catastrophic way, as in I can use the thing one day, and not the next.
A different randomisation system on something that is a text generator which is designed to be unperceptable sounds like the people who are annoyed at FLAC vs MP3[1]
Done right you won't know the difference, done badly and you will.
[1] ex audio engineer, try me.
> the people who are annoyed at FLAC vs MP3
What’s the story there? I didn’t know that was a thing and I’m curious to learn more.
MP3 is lossy. FLAC is lossless. So obviously a certain type of people are going to make a religious war out of it.
> try me
Good luck explaining that one
> People get angry about DRM schemes in video games, even if the slowdown these cause is practically imperceptible.
Any potential "slowdown" doesn't even come close to making the list of top reasons people get upset about DRM.
Even if honor were real, LLMs do not have honor, and people using LLMs to write without disclosing that fact (or indeed at all, to some purists) do not have honor either.
> because a stranger manipulates what they regard as their own domain, without consent by or benefit to the owner.
It's LLM output! It's not your domain, it's the LLM owner's!