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Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice
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this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2026
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you are confusing two issues here: oversight for the output of an ANN can very much achieve good results. as i explained in my post.
oversight over the output won't help you with copyright, water and energy consumption, slave labour and all the ethical issues further up the pipeline. but we don't need ANNs for big corpos to do all these evil things. we need oversight and real consequences for those corpos - no matter what they produce.
ANNs as a technology are old and have not fundamentally changed since Alan Turing. Sure, we have iterated and improved. But the fundamentals are the same. LLMs just made that old tech quite popular recently and introduced a "line go up" race. i do not believe that we will gain significant improvements from simply feeding more stolen works to the machine. A fraction of the MNIST dataset is enough to train an ANN on a 20 years old laptop to recognise the digits 0-9 reliably. The technology is sound, limited in its usability and detached from the big corpos.