don't demonize tools, demonize what people do with the tools that's damaging
Depends on what tool you're talking about.
Sadly in this case the tool, in its product form, is already in breach of a moral principle, because it is a derivative work and stealing labor without consent.
If you are referring to the GPT algorithms, that's more subtle. We need to figure out how to regulate it better.
Is your belief based on an animal's capacity for consciousness? If so do you think all animals, regardless of their intelligence, deserve the right to not be eaten? Where would you draw the line?
Not exactly, not by the protocol anyway. It's true that bittorrent supports DHT search with magnet links, so in that way, particular torrents are distributed and decentralized. But AFAIK the trackers indexers do not share any protocol other than the fact they are hosting torrent files and magnet URLs.
I definitely cannot get behind the "no recursion" rule. There are plenty of algorithms where the iterative equivalent is significantly harder and less natural. For example, post-order DFS.
I guess maybe when lives depend on it. But they should be testing and fuzzing their code anyway, right?
EDIT: I can't even find in the NASA PDF where it mentions recursion.
Do you not SSH onto your desktop? I do it all the time. I often want to switch from coding at my desk to coding on a laptop, and tmux + SSH makes that transition completely seamless.
How is it not? The most popular GPT models are trained on copyrighted works.