Thread · HN Continuity

> Seeing the hype online feels both validating and deeply frustrating. I worked on this literally one year back in March 2025. I spent months of hard work, sweat, and sleepless nights building it

While I have deep empathy for what the author must be feeling. It feels tone deaf to me that as someone working in the model industry, likely using data sets scraped from other folks work, he doesn't see the hypocrisy in this.

We've hit an interesting question in our society where a lot of us are getting tremendous value out of the uncredited and uncompensated use of people's hard work and sleepness nights. It seems naive of the author or anyone at this point to believe that the same won't happen to them.

The question is whether we want this to be how our society operates? I can see a number of pros and cons and I know it's not a straight line from they trained on the works to derived works. But it's hard to imagine as humans how we will sustain broad motivation over a long period if we keep allowing this to happen.