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What was that joke about Firefox again? "We're the browser beloved for being the only one not hitting our dick with a hammer. Now, you're probably wondering why we brought this hammer and and took out our dick. Well you see..."
More seriously, I think until the bubble pops, writing "AI" anywhere is a way for companies to attract fundings, and that money is too easy for many to pass.
That's why I tend to trust community managed distros over corpo ones. I don't see Arch or Debian pulling this bullshit.
Tho, I'd still be suspicious of the other big private company, Redhat; which is very involved in maintaining Systemd.
Honestly, if it comes to this I'll distro-hop as far as I need to escape AI.
Red Hat has been all over AI for a while
https://www.redhat.com/en/products/ai
Also they have been collaborating with the US and Israel to kill people on wars for some time
Hosting LLMs is different from pushing AI crap down end users' throats Copilot style.
That feels a lot like "War profiteers aren't guilty of shooting the gun".
NixOS is whatever distro you want it to be. (As long as you learn Nix…)
Love my Fedora Atomic Cosmic, but absolutely we all be watching to see where they go, and if needed will play the distro-hop game in attempt to stay in the AI free zone