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I mean you can shit on this descision and still respect his legacy. Linus still has one the greatest achievement in the foss space with the Linux kernel, and it's fustrating seeing the acceptance of AI code into it.

yall would be running cuck license Operating Systems if it werent for him and RMS

The best institutions outgrow the failings of their founders. Let's hope Free Software can.

hate this reductionist phrase trying to frame llms as neutral tech and the premise that you just have to learn to "use it right".

this tech sucks up power like crazy, devalues human knowledge and art, deskills workers on a massive scale, aids in global surveillance, demands data centers that displace people, spits out code that violates the licensing of a huge number of projects, drives hardware prices through the roof. then it statistically generates some plausible-looking code and gives you a little productivity boost followed by a technical debt that we'll just kick down the line and deal with later.

in the current version they're pretty unethical on every grounds. free software devs, espicially those with gpl'd projects, should know it better than anyone.

any other "tools" that do that?

I agree with his position, but he completely skips the moral issues using current LLMs, which is the big problem here.

LLMd are not tools. A hammer is a tool. A stochastic appliance can not be a tool.

It's just kinda to stupid to treat anyone as infallible.

It kinda comes with being a human.

No one should have statues made of them. We are remembered by momentary glimpses of greatness in the overwhelming sea of mediocrity. Something something typewriters

I don't know, I have a lot of confidence in his capabilities as an engineer and a pioneer.

I have serious misgivings about this choice, but I'm willing to hear him out because he's not just some rando.

It's a trauma response

You should read up on thr Luddites, because you're mischaracterising them. They weren't anti technology, they were anti capitalist.

IMO, this is the think Linus is missing - the shit has massive political implications in multiple dimensions (it's being built by fascists and capitalists bent on control of broader business, government, and social systems) and he's just treating it as if it's as politically agnostic as a screwdriver.

I'll also copy my comment from another thread that defended LLMs as a neutral tool

If nobody lost their job, it didn't convince people to kill themselves, was environmentally friendly, didn't guzzle enormous amounts of water and electricity, wasn't used for mass surveillance and propaganda, didn't devalue art and destroy human culture, didn't contribute to the brain rot epidemic, didn't destroy an entire generation's education, didn't hoard computing resources, didn't hack everyone at any opportunity, then yeah it could have been a pretty cool technology actually

First I was going to reply with the "I ain't going to read all of that" meme.

Then I realized you'd use that as an argument later on to defend AI, so I read it.

I have read the same exact arguments so many times, that I just wasted my time on nothing. I'm won't bother to write the same exact rebuttals I (and others) already have.

Yet AI bros get all angry if we artists dare to draw fanart, because we draw something that already existed. Maybe their brains got cooked by the promise of "infinite, original, and personalized" content...

in a vacuum i would agree with his take but the entire thing is inextricably linked to theft and massive copyright infringement. until the matter is settled in court there's no way to know if using these things professionally is even legal. it's a potential poison pill for the kernel and the fact that he's not acknowledging that is insane to me.