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Mainly. I don't want to put words in his mouth (its an extremely early project without any formal announcement or anything), but there are nearly zero distributions where eliminating the reliance on AI-generated components is actually the goal. You have distros like Gentoo which don't use AI for development, but this has no impact on the system architecture, and with the kernel, sysutils, graphics libs, browsers, major programming languages, etc. all turning into slop, there is a dire need for an operating system which is ideologically committed to maintaining sane engineering practices.
NetBSD has suddenly become popular as one of the last untainted OSes (excluding some externally-maintained components), but as a project / foundation, this is not due to any strong ideological commitments, and it is likely the priorities of maintaining NetBSD and building a no-AI base system (or salvaging a lot of Linuxy/GPL components) are not fully aligned.
In addition, I would also like to add that Drew DeVault has spoken publically for years now on his blog in favor of the BSD model of development as in having a well-maintained "base system" full of software that like..... actually makes up an operating system rather than Linux chaos (that ends up being mostly the same anyway, just dominated by organizations that actually have the resources and ambitious to do total operating system crafting)
Not to mention as well as a lot of BSD's technology and, uhhh, an approach to OS development that favors generally much simpler but less flexible and hyper-modularized systems
I'm sure u, @PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net know this :3 but I'm pretty sure AlpineBSD is a reference to Alpine Linux, a Linux distro that ppl having been saying for years is "BSD-like" cuz of the exclusion of a lot of GNU code and tooling and the focus on a simpler, easier to maintain system