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Open source vs proprietary software (media.piefed.zip)
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Open source vs proprietary software
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[–] 10 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Don't think that open source is immune to this, OnlyOffice has an AI button and many OSS devs are integrating Claude into their dev nowadays. It's getting annoying.

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

    tbf ai can be useful, and will be even more useful once we optimize it enough that you can just run good models locally, without being a slave to the llm coorps. even if they will technically always have the “frontier”, most of these applications don’t really need the best of the best

    we should strive to achieve that since it won’t go away, and you can’t really fight it long term

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

    No, AI just can be harmful.

    Read this

    TL;DR: AI is just a works-stealing machine that makes code less secure and displaces people of their works (or removes their opportunities to get a job).

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    and displaces people of their works (or removes their opportunities to get a job).

    We're talking about open source software here, where the devs usually work for free, as a hobby.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Yes, but the fact is that FLOSS projects are supposed to have, or should have, strong moral codes that favor the emancipation of people who are below everything, freedom and the improvement of everyone's conditions through a philosophy of sharing and, especially, respecting people's autonomy, freedom of choice and personal fulfillment. And those same people who work on open source projects, often for free, also need to figure out how to put food on their tables so they don't starve, and AI is constantly making that basic need impossible to achieve.

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

    Not integrating the tools that the users want to use is how you end up in a situation 10 years down the road where people say "oh, oss-version-of-my-favourite-tool doesn't have A, B, and C so I can't use it" and lose another gen of users.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    "The users want to use slop" isn't the flex you think it is

    I'm getting so tired of running, Windows ruined itself because of it, I don't know wtf to do.

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

    I'm not flexing, I'm acknowledging the reality of the people we share the world with.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Well the original meme implied ai features weren't being added to open source projects

    So its a wee bit strange when I see AI added to OSS projects as well, and a LOT of Claude commits on git repos.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I was responding to your comment "it's getting annoying" in response to AI features being added to oss tools. Either way, we've lost the plot in this thread lol. No hard feelings man. Have a good day! :)

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