Post #1894639
2026-04-27 08:16 UTC
Replies (10)
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@AssaultPepper@mstdn.ca 2026-04-27 13:49
@jnsgruk Going to use this note as the gold standard for AI usage on the OS and company level for the forseeable future. Great to see!
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@teaneedz@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-27 14:36
sorry but @jnsgruk this is wrong and since your market research is flawed, the reality will be a community sunami-force backlash to remind #canonical who their users are.
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@ytvwld@chaos.social 2026-04-27 15:57
@jnsgruk could you please not This is one of the most thoughtful instances of the "we're using AI now" announcements that I've read (especially regarding the models' licenses) but still, I'm not comfortable with AI-generated code in Ubuntu, because I want my computer to work *correctly*. I've been using Ubuntu for 15 years now and I've recommended it to many people and I'm not going to switch distros just now, but I'm just going to stay on 24.04 for the next years until the hype hopefully ends.
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@Jeanniewarner@wandering.shop 2026-04-27 16:40
@jnsgruk As a public service, I can let you know three people will never load Ubuntu again because you added "AI features". Your users are more tech savvy than people who just buy a system and use the default OS. Clearly somebody hasn't read the room.
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@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden 2026-04-27 16:54
@jnsgruk I first encountered reports about this that put the LLM stuff forward and I reacted with revulsion, then read this link and my reaction was considerably more moderate. We really need some terminological clarity in this field that separates what I sometimes think of as "heuristic computing" (NNs, DL, NLP, expert systems &c; so TTS, speech/image recognition, &c) and stuff that's termed "generative AI" ("skeumorphic" models of various nature what get touted as having cognition and creativity somehow, ChatGPT, stable diffusion, Sora, Claude, &c). I am all for the former. Don't use them much myself but people do have valid use cases for it. I dislike the latter but I can live with it so long as it's some normally unobtrusive developer tool you can install/enable if you want. So long as it doesn't Microsoft Copilot its way into my life I'll hold my nose about it lol Lastly, and I mean this most constructively: I think your dichotomy of explicit/implicit AI is basically what I say above but those terms are confusing. Mine aren't better either. "AI" is polarising and tainted. I think it would be opportune to workshop the communication of this as a lot of people who aren't informed about these nuances are trying out or using Linux because they're fed up of "AI" in Windows in particular and this might generate unnecessary and avoidable confusion. In fact it seems to be doing that already.
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@po3mah@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 18:21
@jnsgruk Please don’t. I’m using Ubuntu on servers & desktops since 2008. I will surely reconsider my distro choice at the first chance. Also, I was recommending Ubuntu/Mint to colleagues for the last 15 years. After this post, not anymore. Please don’t go Mozilla’s path. No amount of thoughtful and fancy words like ‘careful’, ‘responsible’, ‘experimentation’, … will convince your most loyal users.
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@Linux_in_a_Bit@infosec.exchange 2026-04-27 21:37
@jnsgruk :blobcatreading: A few parts of the post read way too close to a certain Microsoft presentation for my comfort... even personal automation tasks such as targeted daily news briefings Lovely. :blobcat_thisisfine:
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@mattgriffin@masto.ai 2026-04-27 22:12
@jnsgruk BOOOOOurns
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@JulianOliver@mastodon.social 2026-05-01 06:33
@jnsgruk As a senior sysadmin using Ubuntu server extensively for clients across the NGO sector, and in support of activist initiatives and communities too, this is especially regretful news. If Ubuntu Server builds in AI, we will undertake the rather massive task to switch away from your distribution.
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@EricCarroll@cosocial.ca 2026-05-03 03:42
@jnsgruk@hachyderm.io Long time ubuntu user here. Like from release 8.04 long time. Please don't do this. Pushing genAI into ubuntu without an opt-in posture is the one thing that absolutely will drive me off ubuntu. Learn from the Microsoft mistake of negative optioning genAI, don't emulate it.