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[–] 149 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Good. There will be choice.

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  • [–] 126 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    I like this attitude. I think if the LLMs weren't forced down everyone throats, there would be a lot less hostility towards them

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  • [–] 108 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    It’s just so suspiciously and aggressively being shoved down our throats.

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  • [–] 66 points 5 days ago* (6 children)

    Yes, it's not the technology I hate, it's the people pushing it, demanding it, saying it will replace humans. Those people can fuck right off. Technology exists to serve humans, not the other way around. We are being sold a lie. The technology has some interesting aspects, but the pushers are pushing bullshit.

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  • [–] 28 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    Alright. Hang the fuck on.

    Class war.

    Technology is incapable of doing anything. It literally can do nothing. It can be used as a tool for sure.

    It's currently being used to fuck you. It's fucking me. It's fucking us.

    BUT ONLY AT THE DIRECTION OF BILLIONAIRES

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  • [–] 40 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    They want to make everybody dependent upon AI for information that will then be used to misinform people in order to control them.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    I've been saying this for years. Look at taxi's. In my city in 2005 there were 8 major taxi companies. Each with hundreds of drivers on the road at any given time. Now we have 2 of those 8 remaining, and they're essentially shell companies with 2-3 drivers on the road. The last 4 times I've tried ordering a cab the traditional way, I've been told there's no drivers available. Now it's all Uber. And Lyft. You can't call them. You need a cell phone, and you need internet access.

    All the major corporations are in agreement that we all need cell phones, and we all need to be tracked 24/7. And now with AI, they're getting their data straight from the source. There are men out there who talk to an AI girlfriend. Not sexy stuff. I mean imagine sitting at the dinner table, and discussing your day.....with your AI girlfriend. Meanwhile, ALL that data is going straight to the companies that host the AI.

    Another side effect is that AI will make people dumber. In case you haven't noticed since the 1970s, there has been a GOP push to make the citizens dumber and dumber. Easier to control. Easier to fool. Easier to get away with things.

    So now you got ram being sold for computers that haven't been built yet, to be put in data centers that haven't been built yet, to run an AI system that isn't functional yet, in order to steal the jobs of employees that can't be replaced yet, all in an effort to chase profits that were never possible in the first place since everyone hates AI.

    You wanna see some shit go down? Tell the companies we'll use their AI if they get the unredacted epstein files released. See how fast they bribe the right people then.

    Now tell the politicians we'll stop caring about the epstein files if they forcibly ban all data centers in the country. See how fast they act on that.

    Now we sit back, wait, and watch the fireworks. Oh, and by the way, we're going back on our word either way. Whomever wins, fuck em.

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    [–] 75 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    Ubuntu: The Windows of Linux.

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    [–] 45 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    The article is good, but the headline seems clickbaity:

    • Debian is discussing requirements about hosting software with LLM generated code in their repos, and disclosure of that.

    • "Ubuntu embraces AI" is talking about putting ML inference engines in their repos... which, ironically, are largely human written.

    These are two completely seperate issues. And TBH its not clear how Debian is approaching inference engines or how Ubuntu is approaching disclosure.

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  • [–] 98 points 5 days ago (9 children)

    I hate ai as much as the next person, but I'd have a different mandate. I would require all code to be fully reviewed and understood by a human. Let's call it quality control.

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  • [–] 39 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Agreed. It's not sensible or practical to ban AI, and Linus is right. Why is Linus right? Take a look at the number of Linux CVEs being patched over time. In 2022-23, that was about 300 per year. Last year it was 5530. This is almost entirely as a result of AI scanning tools, including Copy Fail priv escalation that was there for 8 years. The security apocalypse is just about arrived, and the most recent round of cyber models coming out do this way better than before. The Hugging Face incident story was truly unbelievable if you read / watch the details, a historic event. Everything is about to get hacked. So it'll be all about maintainers being reactive to this new reality and burden for some time to come

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  • [–] 15 points 4 days ago (19 children)

    The Hugging Face incident story was truly unbelievable if you read / watch the details

    It didn't really seem that way? Leaving containment seemed more like a configuration oversight than a skill on the part of the model. Accessing HF involved an 0-day but the commentary I saw didn't indicate that it was a next generation hack.

    Given that AI exists, and can scan or otherwise find vulnerabilities, maintainers must do so because threat actors inevitably will.

    It remains to be seen whether the whole race will improve security generally? I imagine not?

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    [–] 72 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    Canonical patronizingly forcing a tool/workflow onto users against their explicit and unequivocal rejection of it?

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    [–] 26 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Ubuntu has a long and storied history of making bad decisions. Why should AI be any different?

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  • [–] 12 points 4 days ago

    There's nothing about Ubuntu's proposed use of AI that seems bad at all. Using it to improve accessibility is a good thing, especially when it's open source, local-only, and sandboxed. I can't see how having high quality speech-to-text would be a bad decision. Much of that stuff is probably not even considered "AI" by most people.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Arch users are forced to write their own AI?

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    [–] 14 points 4 days ago* (1 child)

    I remember when they wanted to unify mobile phones and desktop computers, with a singular online storage account and DE that changed when you plugged your phone into a monitor. That shit was crazy.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    My parents are coming over today because their ZorinOS installation suddenly started acting up after an Ubuntu Kernel update. Thanks Ubuntu.

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    [–] 17 points 4 days ago (27 children)

    Damn. I think it's time for me to finally try Mint. Currently using 98% Ubuntu and 2% Windows because unfortunately there's always some sort of Windows-only software I need for one reason or another. Yes I've tried Wine, I haven't gotten it to work.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Do yourself a favor, do Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). It's got all the slickness of Mint, but the core is based on Debian instead of Ubuntu.

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    [–] 11 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    What are they going to do about upstreams that use it? Like the Linux kernel for example.

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