refalo comments on NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago* (5 children)

But how is requiring explicit approval (meaning it's not something that is not typically allowed) considered "permissive"?

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[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

The wording is weird. But the project (openslop) defines permissive as basically having a path for AI to enter the code. This lumps together both measured approaches like NetBSD's and fully embracing slop contributions in the same category.

I think this only makes sense if you view AI contributions as a taint, something that threatens the licensing of a project. In that optic, it really is an all or nothing. But it doesn't help users choose among the options as much.

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[+] nykula@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

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[–] misk@piefed.social [S] 1 point 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Do those two commits count as “increasingly”?

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[–] nykula@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There were more commits, the scanner basically checks the most recent history and stops, just to confirm that the project still allows LLMs. I don't have a laptop or good internet right now to clone the entire repo and grep logs.

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[–] misk@piefed.social [S] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

Before I refreshed it there were 4 flagged commits, all from September 1st. Since then there was one new LLM-assisted commit so it looks like the rate is decreasing.

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[–] nykula@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

That is good to know. I've also just checked the commits, and now I'm unsure if the LLM-related lines actually signified LLM use or just were copied from updated software changelogs. I will remove my above comment and stop with this topic until I learn more.