I have no context of who you are/your position here, but the responses you're getting seem absurd to me.

I just don't understand people placing the blame on you when it should be on your company. Most people in the world are just trying to keep their job - you did it. It wasn't something illegal, it was something that if you didn't do, you would have risked your job and then someone else would have done it anyway.

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59percentmore 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because the difference between what he's done and, say, the practice of the people who peddled opioids for a paycheck is one of degree, not kind.

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sillyfluke 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Obviously the difference of degree on the spectrum between the two in this case does vary greatly, but your comment reminded me of an interview with a journalist who had compiled a collection of interviews with midtier drug dealers in various cartels and one thing that stood out to him was that almost all of them, when asked why they did what they did, would respond by saying that if they didn't someone else would.

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SecretDreams 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, but it's multiple orders of magnitude apart.

Are we also going to start putting LLM engineers to the fire because they're accelerating the enshitification of our world? Probably not.

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LadyCailin an hour ago | parent [-]

That’s not a good example, since you can argue that LLMs have utility to humanity. Hiding the cancel button has none, except for rent seeking.

	▲	angrysaki an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The bigger difference is that the net utility for LLMs could turn out to be massively negative

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forgetfreeman 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"I was just following orders" is not, and has never been, a credible defense of unethical behavior.

	▲	littlecranky67 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Unless you were in the US. There it always worked.

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atonse 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Exactly. Those low quality comments are an example of the sad erosion of quality of comments on HN that I and others have complained about in recent times.

	▲	ToucanLoucan 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's perfectly valid in our increasingly enshittified world to be angry with all those responsible for it. As much as you're right to point the finger a the C-suites, ultimately ALL of these user-hostile features, every single one, only exists because devs keep putting fingers to keyboards in exchange for checks. Tech workers had a time where unionization and getting a voice in our companies was very much on the table, and the biggest voices among us shouted down the others in the name of rockstar salaries and free beer at the office. The "top contributors" at huge companies were scared shitless that they might have to accept a wage too much like the REST of their software engineer coworkers. The horror.