> That has strongly disincentivized legitimate contributions from people.
Citation needed. I'm seeing the opposite effect: that embracing AI slop in OSS is turning off human contributors who are aghast at projects not standing firm against the incursion of LLMs…even going so far as to fork projects prior to the introduction of slop. (I'm already using slop-free forked software, and I suspect this trend will grow which is sad but necessary.)
Current, a brand-new handcoded RSS reader for i(Pad)OS/macOS is one of the best apps I've ever used. Seriously. I gladly purchased it and use it every day now (with Feedbin as the backend).
Not only that, many of the apps & services I'm gravitating to are genuinely AI-skeptic either in how they're built or in how they market themselves to the general public. Slop-free is becoming hot stuff, and if you sound silly & AI-pilled you take on a significant amount of heat as you should.
As others have said, should be fine to run Linux in a VM. Running natively from boot, the only potential option would be Asahi Linux, but my understanding is that the A18 Pro chip has certain internal attributes which are akin to an M3, and Asahi has only gotten full support in place for the M1/M2 generations. Perhaps once they get M3+ fully working, A18 Pro would also be an option. (I'm also super interested in a Neo running Linux.)
I'm not sure what it is I'm supposed to be mourning. I'm using my skills and continuing in my craft the way I have for several decades and the way I will continue to for several more. I eschew the LLMs not because they are threatening to me, but because they are unsound products built & promoted by people who are fundamentally sociopathic.
If I am to mourn, I can mourn the unveiling of deep ethical lapses across the entire tech industry. They were clearly there already, we just didn't realize that if you were to put any random assemblage of techies into a room, a decent handful of them are sadly unethical people lacking a moral compass. We know that now. They love LLMs, because they love power and they dislike having to forgo perceived "utility" by recognizing the importance of caring for others in a community.
While they do their utmost to demolish craft & artistry & tradition, I will be doing my utmost to preserve & defend all of those things. I am no stranger to boycotts, and I certainly don't suffer from FOMO. And I'm thankful I know a whole lot of people who feel much as I do.
Completely agree. This is the framing people use to cope with their moral and psychological failure. Using tools that are literally scorching the earth just so they don’t have to use their brains anymore.
100% with you. I start a new job on Monday and I intend to keep building great young engineers who love their craft and their community. Enough of this vampiric unethical horse manure.
I really would love an "AR" web. It'd be so cool to walk around a city and get fed real-time information about landmarks, history, cultural events, and shopping destinations—whether through smart glasses or simply a smartphone.
Unfortunately my confidence that any modern tech company could build such an AR web without it being based on horribly-invasive privacy-invading AI-training fascism-enabling user-hostile software is roughly zero. Thus the dream of AR will have to remain just that…a dream. Perhaps the sci-fi of it all should remain "fi".
I think the closest you might expect would the the likes of Pokemon go... though it would be a cool option from the same company/org... though you're right, would likely be a privacy invasion trap that slurped up all the travel data to offer sales to nearby hotels/restaurants to pop up offers...
"Hey, it's getting close to lunch time, would you like some restaurant recommendations nearby?"
I've been saying this for a while now. Agentic network activity is indistinguishable from malware. This ruling is merely the opening salvo in a torrent of impending litigation which will tear the Internet apart.
Didn't have to be this way, and I'm hardly an Amazon sympathizer (in fact I boycott the company)…but they are definitely setting a worthy precedent here against the incredible myopic greed of AI vendors.
LLM-generated code is incompatible with libre software. It's extremely frustrating to see such a lack of conviction to argue this point forcefully and repeatedly. It's certainly bad enough to see such a widespread embrace of this dangerous and anti-libre technology within proprietary software teams, but when it comes to FLOSS, it should be a no-brainer to formalize an emphatic anti-slop contributor policy.
> It's extremely frustrating to see such a lack of conviction to argue this point forcefully and repeatedly.
It is. You haven't argued it at all, right here. You just asserted it as if it were self-evident, talked about your feelings, then demanded policy.
Your only job here was to convince people to align with you, and you didn't bother. It makes me suspect that you haven't really solidified the argument in your own mind.
What you think is obvious is not obvious. Please make your argument instead of insulting people.
I could guess at arguments but the ones that come to mind are pretty weak. For copyrightability, if half the lines in a FLOSS project are public domain, the license will still be effective. For infringement when training, that's not really the user's problem. For LLMs being proprietary, that doesn't infect the output, also many LLMs are not proprietary. For danger, there's not a lot of that specifically in the code-making context, and I don't see how danger makes something anti-FLOSS either.
Citation needed. I'm seeing the opposite effect: that embracing AI slop in OSS is turning off human contributors who are aghast at projects not standing firm against the incursion of LLMs…even going so far as to fork projects prior to the introduction of slop. (I'm already using slop-free forked software, and I suspect this trend will grow which is sad but necessary.)
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