Comment by matheusmoreira
4 days ago
How terrible. I'm sitting on multiple AI reverse engineered firmwares that I'm not sure what to do with. I suppose they'll never make it to upstream now. My only option is to ask AI to integrate this stuff.
4 days ago
How terrible. I'm sitting on multiple AI reverse engineered firmwares that I'm not sure what to do with. I suppose they'll never make it to upstream now. My only option is to ask AI to integrate this stuff.
This conflict has come up a lot in open source lately and the answer has been to just create your own repo and space where you can dump unlimited ai output without needing anyone’s permission. If users find it useful they can use it, and there’s no conflict with maintainers who don’t want it.
Time will tell if these new AI allowed projects like artcraft will prove more popular than fully human curated ones.
The whole point of open source is to get this stuff upstream so that a rich software commons is created.
I'm not sure I want to participate in this space anymore if everyone is just going to have their own isolated forks. I might as well keep my own private version of everything and never deal with maintainers ever again.
There has always been peoples personal forks and random one man hobby projects on Github. I think the Artcraft project is a good example of what's to come. Gimp would have never accepted thousands of commits to convert it in to a replica of Photoshop, and they shouldn't have to. The people who want to go full speed AI programming can run their own project and don't have to bother the Gimp maintainers.
Is it really out of the question to stop using AI and continue contributing upstream to free software projects? It was just a few years ago this was the norm.
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