And the cruel irony is that they stole our work to train the AI that devalues our work going forward, and will cause many of us to lose our jobs.

I regret every line of open source code I ever wrote.

> I regret every line of open source code I ever wrote

And every stack overflow post, every reddit post, everything.

I regret participating in the open Internet.

Here I am anyways, I guess. It's just in my genes or something.

Same. I've scrubbed my presence as much as possible from the majority of the internet (except HN for whatever reason) to prevent future models from being trained on my output, but the damage is already done. Part of me exists in pretty much all AI models now, without my consent. And those models are actively stealing my career and passions.

This process can even feel a bit like parasitism, it empties out the host, like in <Alien>.