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Linus might want to look over Oracle's reasoning and reconsider the potential legal harm that can come to the Linux kernel from accepting AI code.

NetBSD specifically prohibits AI contributions as far as I'm aware of -and thank god for it!

I'm a simple user so libreoffice (Calcs, in this case) suits my needs -but I'm also not using it for work, either.

This, right here, is the bottom line. Money gets what Money wants.

That's apples and oranges; a better analogy would be if you post a video on youtube that you made yourself, with products you're allowed to use, but happen to overlook that copywritten music is on the radio in the background or on the tv.

How many youtube videos have gone dark over bogus copyright claims over the years? And you think people will overlook what's in AI -when there's over a trillion dollars on the table?

Alternate take; deliberately broken moderation systems and perverse incentives are the biggest source of social media manipulation.

Fix social media, and leave the consumers alone.

Also the firehose of spam will continue regardless of what you do on the consumer end.

Works a treat, I reckon -until the moment comes when you actually want to interact and/or post.

With AI posts and karma farming -not to mention good old-fashioned astroturfing ...how reliable is that, really?

>Back to old school forums

It's the year of Our Lord 2026. Good luck discovering forums that you don't already know about!

Honestly that seems kind of pointless and a waste of time. Might as well work it out by hand if you're going to go through all that effort

I missed that, link please?

Not a lawyer, but additionally there's also legal concern about the legality of the training source. How can you verify that the model you're using wasn't trained and therefore incorporates code that is not licensed for sharing. e.g. someone theoretically uploading the shared source windows kernel to github and it being added to copilot.

There's no reasonable belief that or similar scenarios cannot happen and does not happen.

That's my problem with Linus's announcement regarding AI in the kernel -since the announcement I'm counting the days until we see SCO II Electric Boogaloo.

There's a lot of people with deep pockets and a deeper hatred of FOSS, and AI gives them the backdoor to take FOSS out -legally, on the grounds of province.

(I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, and this is only my speculation from a layperson's point of view)

Of course they are -it goes without saying.

Are you including aggressive economic attacks -such as weaponizing tariffs or are you only counting direct military acts?

I'm pretty sure the U.S. has done both over the last couple of years -but I'd love to be proven wrong. :)

Yes and no? I've had the same experience with asking about Tienanmen square -but then when asking a Deepseek v4 model (and confirmed by asking the chat on the deepseek site) about the "laying flat" movement it gave me a detailed answer that was unexpectedly sympathetic to the movement.

>But lately, because of AI, I've completely lost interest in this kind of stuff.

I'm a few years older -and yes, I feel the same way. Not just in programming and geek stuff but in creativity too.

It seems literally pointless, since what everyone else is doing involves AI. It literally takes the point away since folks will simply say "oh, who cares? Look at this shit I made in AI instead"

I originally wasn't going to try it -but now I have to!

Particularly since the first version of Windows shipped in what -1985? Contemporary with 4.2BSD? Did 4.2BSD even use /etc/hosts the same way or DNS?

Elon bought Twitter to destroy it, this is simply the latest step in that process.

>And at that point you also realize that are better OSes

Nothing beats Windows 11+WSL2; literally the best of both worlds.

Great for svardos users, not ideal for the rest of the FreeDOS community, however.

[edit]Additionally, it looks like people's IP address is included with their posts. YUCK!

OS/2 was more stable than Windows and it had threaded application support -so the analogy does hold, IMO.

Another One Rides The Bus

(I first heard it on Dr. Demento)

Litigation in some form or another. This is undoubtably related to the take it down legislation recently passed.

Porn isn't the only worry; there's also getting sued by the estates of dead celebrities, being misused for misinformation purposes.

Things are going to become increasingly restrictive until it is not worth using unless you're a corporation or a state actor. But for hobbiests? Resources are going to become thin on the ground and no, that is not a good thing.

From what I understand, Brave is a shit-show in its' own right.

>Lxcore.sys, the kernel side driver that powers WSL 1

This isn't open source, and considering that this is probably what ties into/sets up WSL as a windows subsystem that's a bit of a bummer.

The rest is just a Virtual Machine for the most part, isn't it?

>Let's not get sidetracked with the whole LGTBIQH or whatever topic

No -LET'S; because it's not a sidetrack; it's the primary motivation.

Quoth project 2025: "Pornography, manifested today in the *omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology* and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered."

This is saying that anyone performing education or support services on LGBTQ issues, specifically transgender issues "educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders."

Focusing on this issue is not a side-track; it's one of the primary motivators for this new bill -to target, harass and imprison those who are LGBTQ...

of course anyone with more than two working braincells can anticipate how it would be expanded upon (goodbye freedom of assembly, goodbye unionizing); but it's a foot in the door.

I'm worried on a personal level that it's too easy to begin to rely on chatgpt (specifically) for questions and such that I can figure out for myself. As a time-saver when I'm doing something else.

The problem for me is -it sucks. It falls over in the most obvious ways requiring me to do a lot of tweaking to make it fit whatever task I'm doing. I don't mind (esp for free) but in my experience we're NOT in the "all the right answers all of the time" stage yet.

I can see it coming, and for good or ill the thing that will mitigate addiction is enshittification. Want the rest of the answer? Get a subscription. Hot and heavy in an intimate conversation with your dead granma wait why is she suddenly singing the praises of Turbotax (or whatever paid advert).

What I'm trying to say is that by the time it is able to be the perfect answer and companion and entertainment machine -other factors (annoyances, expense) will keep it from becoming terribly addictive.

The mention of lovebombing is disconcerting, and I'd love to know the specifics around it. Is it related to the sycophant personality changes they had to walk back, or is it something more intense?

I've used AI (not chatgpt) for roleplay and I've noticed that the models will often fixate on one idea or concept and repeat it and build on it. So this makes me wonder if the model the person being lovebombed experienced something like that? The model decided that they liked that content so they just kept building up on it?

It's interesting that a few of these projects seem to be reaching milestones at the same time. It's reassuring to see that there are people out there who are still working on this deep of a level with computers and sharing their results with us.

Rock on!