Comment by sarjann
4 days ago
There is a respectable way to approach this and this.
The right way is something like, we've been getting spammed with a bunch of PR's from AI that we find difficult to review (because AI allows the average bob who isn't technically minded to make a PR). We have therefore decided not to allow AI submissions.
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I think the people who have some moral / ideological issue and bring that into projects kind of feel like clowns to me. I agree with Linus that the point is to make something that people find useful, and obviously you want it to be maintainable.
Saying "it makes you dumber etc" is not related to the project, with all due respect it's non of your fucking business how I learn / retain skills.
Free Software was a moral & ideological issue to Stallman.
I feel people have the right to bring any sort of issue into the projects they make. Nobody is forced to participate.
I get it, but everything is ideological -- whether you want to hear about it or not.
In a world where software exerts considerable control and influence over peoples' lives, your ability to insulate yourself from that influence is a priveledge. Software IS ideological. Free software was created so people can have the freedom to share and collaborate on their own terms. There is an extent to which it gets extreme, but without the GPL we would live in an even more monopolistic "free" market hell world than we already do. That's a moral obligation that spawned a practical one. If no one ever took a moral stance because you find it annoying, the world would be an objectively worse place.
I always find these sorts of responses fascinating. “Oh no people are being mean about our lovely robots!!” Like, people are entitled to dislike and be sceptical of LLMs.
No one's claiming they don't have a right to their opinion, But just as they have a right to their opinion, I have the right to say it's silly.
I am not claiming that they must stop following their silly ideas. I am just saying they are silly.
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