diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5f9fd87..a2f09e1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -59,5 +59,23 @@ You can also use the following commands: ## Credits The prompts in this tool are taken from the [awesome-chatgpt-prompts](https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts) repository. - - +## I am Using GitHub Under Protest + +This project is currently hosted on my [personal +forge](https://git.blob42.xyz/sp4ke/gpt-prompts-cli) and mirrored on GitHub. +This is not ideal; GitHub is a proprietary, trade-secret system that is not +Free and Open Souce Software (FOSS). I am deeply concerned about using a +proprietary system like GitHub. I urge you to read about the [Give up +GitHub](https://GiveUpGitHub.org) campaign from [the Software Freedom +Conservancy](https://sfconservancy.org) to understand some of the reasons why +GitHub is not a good place to host FOSS projects. + +Any use of this project's code by GitHub Copilot, past or present, is done +without our permission. We object to GitHub using the code from this project +in Copilot. Given that this program is connected to ChatGPT, which utilizes +GPT-3 from OpenAI like Copilot, you would consider this to be hypocritical. We +do not have a choice, though; companies like Microsoft and OpenAI restricted +their models with private barriers after training their models using +open-source knowledge from humans. All people should have access to this +technology, but until then we must adapt to and make use of these tools +that offer those who utilize them an unfair advantage over those who don't.