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Ubuntu's "AI Kill Switch" Is Achieved By Removing Snaps, Initially Opt-In (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Burying the lede:

Lastly, the VP of Engineering did clarify that they will be shipping code in Ubuntu that is co-authored by AI.

"Regarding whether or not we should ship code that was co-authored by an AI - in reality we will be doing this. Even foundational projects in the ecosystem like the Kernel itself now have policies around how to govern this, and will accept tasteful, correct contributions that have been authored with AI."

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

If the kernel accepts ai contributions...

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Does that mean mint is going to be AI as well? I haven't heard anything out of that project because I'm not paying attention, but it just seems inevitable.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

You can always use LMDE which is based on Debian upstream instead of Ubuntu.

[–] Professor_Piddles@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can't speak for them, but they did start the Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) project as a means to escape total reliance on Ubuntu and their unsavory decisions. It does seem inevitable that every distro will eventually have some amount of AI generated code, if they don't already.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It does seem inevitable that every distro will eventually have some amount of AI generated code, if they don’t already.

100% there is plenty of undeclared "AI assisted" code all over the place already.