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The AI Pascal’s Wager: Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project? (ploum.net)
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[+] -33 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Those are imaginary shit made up to stop progress. AI will be used. If not then the project will be formed and the fork will get leaves better than the human slop version. Meanwhile you'll keep coping that le AI bad with le enbyornmint. AI uses less water than growing almonds. Stop being a brainwashed cattle

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago

    AI will be used. If not then the project will be formed and the fork will get leaves better than the human slop version.

    I heavily doubt this is actually the case.

    But perhaps you can help out and show me some convincing real-world examples where large, mature, abd widely used FOSS projects were forked and became significantly better because use of LLM code generation?

    We have these things now for at least a year and as the old saying from the dot com era goes, Internet years are dog years, meaning a three year old dog is adult, so there must be a really successful application of that LLM technology in software development?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    AI uses less water than growing almonds. Stop being a brainwashed cattle

    Citation needed.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    there are a few. i feel like this one gives the most info succintly

    https://rare.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/AI-and-Water-Use-Updated.pdf

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago

    In general, it's unwise to cite carpetbaggers who don't account for the full systemic impacts of their data centers.

    See, for example: https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption

    Powering data centers with renewable energy sources, like solar or wind, requires significantly less water consumption than obtaining energy from fossil fuel power plants. With approximately 56% of the electricity used to power data centers nationwide coming from fossil fuels, deploying more clean energy to power these facilities can significantly reduce water consumption. Coal plants are the most water-intensive facilities, requiring approximately 19,185 gallons of water per megawatt-hour (MWh) of power generation. Natural gas power plants consume approximately 2,800 gallons per MWh. In 2022, 40% of all total U.S. annual water withdrawals, or about 48.5 trillion gallons, were made by coal and gas power plants. Of those 48.5 trillion gallons, 962 billion gallons of water were consumed and were no longer available for direct downstream use.

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