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System 76's COSMIC Desktop becomes the first major DE to take a stand against AI with new policy that rejects AI/LLM contributions (github.com)

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Fingers crossed Gnome follows suit! :)

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[–] moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did fedora make a stand against AI? If so, I might jump from Debian

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They have not, they do accept AI contributions, however their policy is a bit more restrictive than Debian's in that Fedora at least requires contributors to disclose LLM use in pull requests.

There are a few distros that do reject all AI code, which you can find in these two lists:

https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html

https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#linux-based (under the 'Alternative Linux-based operating systems' section).