Post #1862800

2026-04-26 08:27 UTC

Despite current pushback from several open-source projects on AI contributions, I’m fully expecting the overall volume of AI “co-authored” open-source contributions to reach as high as 90% within the next 3 years Partially because we won’t be able to tell the difference anymore , but mostly because people will realise that the whole argument is stupid #opensource #ai

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@kaievans@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 08:31

If you believe in opensource and free software in particular it means you buy into the idea that knowledge doesn’t belong to anyone. Which makes the whole intellectual property argument non withstanding and the issue boils down to some people feeling jelly of other people’s ability to sell knowledge better than them.

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@kaievans@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 08:32

While the feeling is valid and understandable you can’t be selective about it based on how successful someone is. And if you really want to ban you should ban the opensource commercialisation layer as a whole. Which we can agree is stupid QED

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@nils_ramsperger@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 09:02

@kaievans@mastodon.social „made without AI“ might be a nice selling point for the many #AI sceptic people out there. And yes, all that slop out there is not casting a good light on ai. But I guess, in a few years, projects without ai support will lack behind in terms of maintenance and feature progress. All that ai stuff is here to stay. Like it, or not. The interesting longterm question will be, how to manage the energy consumption of this industry.

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