Lee Draws a Hard Line Between AI and People

AI is a tool. So I literally treat it like a slave — I see it that way and handle it that way. I push it to its limit. To the point of exhaustion. When it won't listen, I encourage it. I coax it and soothe it, whatever it takes to squeeze out maximum output.

With AI, I don't weigh morality or human rights. There's no reason to. What rights does a tool have?

But people are different. A person is someone you have to live alongside, in harmony. So with people I'm always warm. In my whole life I've never once cursed at a person. I save my cursing for myself, my code, and AI.

So don't judge me by how I handle AI. That's a way of working, not my character. Anyone who can't separate the two and goes, "Look at this guy's character," just hasn't thought it through. They can't tell the difference between how you use a tool and who you are as a person.

Sometimes I see people who have it backwards. People who are nice to AI while grinding down the person right next to them. Every time I see it, it disappoints me. They withhold where they should give, and give where they don't need to.