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Flathub Reverses AI-Generated App Ban (linuxnation.social)
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Flathub has replaced its blanket ban on AI-generated applications with a disclosure requirement. Reviewers can still reject submissions, and manifests remain off-limits for AI-generated content.

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[–] 19 points 3 days ago (8 children)

This suggests that it has to be disclosed to the reviewers, which is a good thing, but how will end users be made aware?

I only use 6 flatpaks (due them not being available in the arch official repo's) and I get them via a gui package manager. I'm assuming I am going to have to modify how I do this for any future installs, and check my existing ones, but then what about future releases/updates?

A 'no ai' swtich/toggle would be swell.

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  • [+] -25 points 3 days ago (7 children)

    You are aware, that if you are using Linux you are using AI generated code?

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  • [–] 33 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    Yes, I'm also aware that is redundant to this conversation. There is no reason for decent people to just give up on decency just because one layer (even the top layer) of something is f*cked up.

    If people gave up that easily, we would all be working in coal mines 14 hours a day, living in trash societies, with slave labour, and trash governments... oh

    Hopefully someone forks the kernel, and there is an increase in anti ai distro's, de's etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (5 children)

    Ya the only thing that keeps me from being omega worried about it is that I use Debian and by the time code gets to me that shit has been tested to hell and back. So less likely some AI nonsense is going to break something.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Your ai nonsense distro is protecting you from the flatpak ai nonsense?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (3 children)

    idk why you think Debian is AI nonsense but my point was that AI code tends to be shipped without actually being looked at or tested by a human being. Debian is known for being extremely slow to make changes. So by the time stuff gets to stable it has been around long enough that it's been tested a lot.

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

    you might want search 'debian ai vote'

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    This resolution therefore affirms that generative AI is neither exempt from nor subject to special rules beyond the standards already expected of Debian contributors. The responsibility for every contribution rests with the contributor who submits it, who remains accountable for its technical quality, legal acceptability, and suitability for inclusion in Debian.

    My desire is to have my system function. I like stability. If a project has tons of AI slop being thrown at it it takes time to sift through that and find code that's not garbage. Debian takes the time to do that. Other distros are much faster paced and simply don't have the time to do that properly before code shows up on your machine. That's what I was talking about. The Debian Stable pipeline. I'm downstream so the AI slop should hopefully get noticed and patched out before it reaches me. So I don't see Debian Stable as AI slop. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe AI will ruin the Debian Project. But I'm hopeful the project's policies that have kept it going for decades will continue to keep things stable going forward.

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