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Flathub Now Rejects AI-Assisted Apps and Submissions (linuxiac.com)
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[+] -18 points 5 months ago (15 children)

That's ... incredibly stupid. It will also make Flathub completely irrelevant shortly since app developers won't change what they're doing just because Flathub throws a hissy fit.

/had an LLM-assisted PR merged into an open source project yesterday

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Really? Llm code can not confirm to open source licences.

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Citation needed, I've never heard that before and I'm seeing plenty of evidence of people behaving otherwise.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I thought llm code was all public domain? Which I guess that means it can't be under an open source license.

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago

    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is based off of public domain sources but it is nevertheless under copyright itself. So even if the output of LLMs was public domain (not something that has been clearly or universally established) that doesn't mean a project incorporating it would have to be. Public domain is not "viral."

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    The policy allows for exceptions, which may be granted for mature, well-maintained projects

    basically the project has to have a history of being maintained well already to get exemption.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    Having a policy against bad apps is fine - but that's not what this policy says.

    It's trivial to write a good app using LLM aids - but that new app won't have such a history.

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Foss kicking itself in the face. Year of the Linux desktop any day now.

    Over confident devs who can't figure out the delta between entire companies replacing humans and the reality of a force amplifier that'll turn devs into architecture/operators outside a small niche of actual hardcore coders.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Over confident devs who can't figure out the delta between entire companies replacing humans

    They're firing humans. "Replacing" implies something else is doing their jobs.

    a force amplifier that'll turn devs into architecture/operators outside a small niche of actual hardcore coders.

    Is this "force amplifier" in the room with us right now?

    Year of the Linux desktop any day now.

    "Year of the Linux desktop" is a meme. Nobody cares if someone uses Linux, Mac, or Windows. All anyone wants is decent support for software on Linux as well. That being the case, it takes a special kind of masochism to use Windows these days.

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