Post #1661441

2026-03-27 21:20 UTC

Many people pushing to use AI tools in FOSS projects around... The environmental issue of course, but also to just swallow big techs&#39;s shit, to ignore the authorship/licensing/ethical issues, all that would be the opposite of what a FOSS project thrives to do. Aside from that, instead giving money to AI tools, why not pay a real person to help. Anybody is free do whatever they want at home of course (and deal with their conscience 😅), but my opinion is this just cannot be done as a FOSS project.

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@OpenSoul@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 21:34

RE: https://mastodon.social/@yorik/116303228711106667 @yorik I TOTALLY subscribe with Yorik 👍 💪

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@Chris_G@fosstodon.org 2026-03-27 22:22

@yorik I agree. I just cannot understand how so many people can fall in that trap. Yes, the tech is fascinating, but the consequences of its widespread use are frightening.

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@MisterMaker@mastodon.nl 2026-03-28 05:06

@yorik I think this can only be defeated by open source AI...

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@brunopostle@mastodon.xyz 2026-03-28 09:32

@yorik LLMs are deeply problematic, they are enabling powerful people to build a world I don't want - however the problem here is the 'powerful people' bit. Stealing from open source software to build more open software raises a whole bunch of problems, but these are also the least of our problems. We know how to do convivial tools, quality, attribution and maintainability - we should insist on these things.

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