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Void Linux maintainer orphans 100+ packages over AI policy dispute (www.phoronix.com)

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[...] the Void Linux project does have a contributing policy over AI usage that reads:

"In this section, "AI" refers to generative artificial intelligence tools, including Large Language Models and similar technologies.

All contributions are expected to be made by humans. AI tools may be used for research and learning, but all content in contributions must originate from and be understood by the contributor. This includes code, documentation, issues, security reports, pull request descriptions, and comments in all Void Linux community spaces.

ALL usage of AI tools MUST be disclosed.

Do not bring AI review tools into pull requests.

Usage of AI-powered human-language translation tools is acceptable to facilitate contributions across language barriers."

(Link to full text of the policy.)

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[–] Bluefruit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Just wanted to chime in an say I appreciate your more balanced and or nuanced take on this topic.

I see a lot of hate for AI and for good reason, but it does have its use cases.

Unfortunately, like NFTs when they became popular for scams or whatever the fuck people started doing with them, it quickly became used for making garbage, scamming, and being shoved into everything companies thought it could be.

And the scale at which AI is harming our planet is too great a cost for what it does right now or even if it was amazing at what it did. Theres a lot of issues with it.