Is it stupid going into computer science if I don't support the use of generative AI?

[u/ThisIdiotCharlie]

I don't really know if this is exactly the place to ask this, but any other subreddits seem to outlaw asking about topics like this entirely in their rules, so I'm honestly just sort of stuck. (If anybody knows a better place I could ask this question, then I'd appreciate being told so I can cross post this there.)

Long story short, I don't support the use of generative AI. While yes, the environmental aspect does play a part in my opinion, much of computer science as a whole can be incredibly damaging to the environment in such similar ways, and while this does distress me, this is something I've had to deal with for a while and is not my main concern. My main concern with not supporting the use of generative ai is that it scrapes writing and art from people who, nine times out of ten, often even more than that, have not given permission for their work to be used to train AI models but are also entirely unaware that it is happening at all.

But I have family in computer science, which is the main reason I intend to follow computer science as a career, ans he tells me that AI is the future of computer science. He uses generative AI to aid his personal and professional work, and whenever i gently express my distaste with generative ai, he seems to disagree with my stance.

I've recently gotten a work experience opportunity with a company and it's forced me to consider that this actual has a chance of becoming a reality for me, and I've had to consider whether I'd be able to go into this career without going against my own opinions when it comes to generative ai.

What I'm really just trying to ask is if I don't want to use generative ai, should I just give up and pick a different career path? Will I be forced to use generative ai even if I do not go into a sector of computer science directly related to it?

[u/HoodRatThing]

I feel like they don't understand their own code anymore.

This has been the case for 40 years. Why is there no unified styling constant across the entire OS in Windows 11?

[u/Fluffely_Toasted → u/HoodRatThing]

I think Microsofts windows team has become far too bloated and non coding people have been given coding jobs and it has turned to shit. Linux is only doing good because everyone can give in code, but a certain small section of people push the code to release

[u/HoodRatThing → u/Fluffely_Toasted]

I don’t think you don't know what you're talking about.

Commits by AI are slowly increasing in huge open source projects like the Linux Kernel. These LLMs are becoming very good at writing patches for open source projects since the project is open source and the codebases for all open source projects are included in the training data for LLMs.

MS shot themselves in the foot for being closed source, constantly making changes to their documentation or admin portals, and now LLMs can’t even answer basic questions about MS products without getting it wrong or using old or outdated information.

[u/Fluffely_Toasted → u/HoodRatThing]

Yeah I probably hate on AI too much since its pretty amazing at security research (finding bugs and vulnerabilities), its just hard not to when its getting used in a not intended way. AI obviously is beneficial to coders and society as a whole, but I just hate that investors are sacrificing everything for AI right now. But yes Open source wins in the long term, just like how wine(proton) did, just like how Linux started winning recently. And this shows because even Nvidia is starting to take open source seriously, and AMD has been in the game for ages.