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Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off: Linux supremo says contributors opposed to AI use can 'just walk away' (lore.kernel.org)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1264750/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off-linux-supremo-says-contributors-opposed-to-ai

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[–] 22 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

It's really weird for Linus to reference "the open source thing" while encouraging people to use legally dubious closed-source software with legally dubious output

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    This seems to be his view:

    In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.

    He doesn't seem to subscribe to the idea that everything you use MUST be open source, as some more radical open source advocates do, but instead that more software SHOULD be open source.

    I would definitely prefer if AI was open source and self-hosted (or at least E2EE if cloud hosted). Sometimes though the best tool for the job as things stand is closed source.

    Aa for the legally dubious output, while AI can exactly replicate training data, it rarely does nowadays. It's usually an amalgam of stuff.

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