I think this article is quite a bit ungenerous of what Torvalds actually said. The only gross part here is him taking money from Meta but that's probably not the first time he accepted big corpo money, his actual stance is IMO more reasonable than what this article portrays it to be, basically he said trusted maintainers should deprioritize new contributors that are likely to be LLM slop.
That said he really should be even more conservative in his approach here, even the current amount of LLM patches to the kernel are sketchy enough, he should consider at least a temporary moratorium on LLM patches. The kernel is not some random ass app where it doesn't matter if it gets broken for a while due to LLM usage.