From 9397114f56e0443f43ef27faa742966be9ecf320 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Qvist
The contrast at the centre of this entire discussion can be made clearer with two examples, both of which are a publicly accessible, both produced in the same year, by people using the same class of tools.
+The contrast at the centre of this entire discussion can be made clearer with two examples, both of which are publicly accessible, both produced in the same year, by people using the same class of tools.
The first is this chapter. It was produced with machine assistance, openly: the structure was directed by the human, the material was assembled with the tool’s help, every conclusion, every line, every slight nuance of meaning and semantics was examined, edited, and accepted or rejected by the human, and the process described publicly - including the precise characteristics of the technological assistance framework used. The human can answer for every claim in these documents, because the human made the decisions the claims rest on.
The second is the project examined in the Prns case. It was produced by a machine, at a volume no human could review, and the authorship record was engineered to erase the machine’s role: A commit hook that refuses attribution of machine generation, a contribution policy declaring machine output the human’s own, a fictitious contributor identity, 637,000 lines of unreviewed code. The human cannot answer for the code, because the choices were never made by a human - only the conformal surface of the presentation was.
The same tool class. The same technology. Two diametrically opposed relationships to truth and responsibility. The difference is not the tool. The difference is the presence or absence of the human as the agent of the work - and the honesty or concealment with which that relationship is recorded.
diff --git a/docs/markdown/brandolinis.md b/docs/markdown/brandolinis.md index a51cbfff..6a622101 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/brandolinis.md +++ b/docs/markdown/brandolinis.md @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ The tool is not the hazard, plain old human nature is. The tool is a mirror, and ### Disclosed Assistance Or Laundered Generation -The contrast at the centre of this entire discussion can be made clearer with two examples, both of which are a publicly accessible, both produced in the same year, by people using the same class of tools. +The contrast at the centre of this entire discussion can be made clearer with two examples, both of which are publicly accessible, both produced in the same year, by people using the same class of tools. The first is this chapter. It was produced with machine assistance, openly: the structure was directed by the human, the material was assembled with the tool’s help, every conclusion, every line, every slight nuance of meaning and semantics was examined, edited, and accepted or rejected by the human, and the process described publicly - including the precise characteristics of the technological assistance framework used. The human can answer for every claim in these documents, because the human made the decisions the claims rest on.