The way the commercialization of LLMs just ruined the word AI, word processors have been using AI in other ways for ages

It's incredible how far we've got, as far as technology goes. A few months ago, we had to fight to get a device that would not connect to the internet. And now we're fighting to find software that actually do what it's supposed to do, and don't do what it's not supposed to do.

Can't wait for the next step. Heck, can't even imagine what it will be at this point.

It should also be a feature to have no AI used in the production. No AI assets, no AI concept art, no AI code, I don't want any of that slop touching my software

This is a good reminder to finally dl it and bite the learning curve.

It certainly is. If you wanna feel like you've rewound 10 years in the past, you gotta pony up. And even still everything feels wrong.

But in the interim, before the bubble pops, I do see the value in having no AI as a feature, especially when the immediate alternative is "go fuck yourself".

One payment for actual slop removal, priced by devs properly to allow them somewhat equivalent revenue compared to if you were being data harvested - that's basically the only good way to do it if we're gonna do it.

No micro transactions and no double or triple or quadruple or quintuple or sextuple dipping on larger payments either.

When did everything become a fever dream?

also gluten free

I am still on open office, no ai there that I'm aware of.

I don't know, Integration with a local instance of ollama from an open source text editor it would be perfectly fine for me. I write enough that a grammar-aware typo correction would be awesome. At work I find Gmails AI suggestions quite useful, especially when writing in languages where i am not fluent. That buy open source and self hosted? Yes, please.

You'd think that "no AI" would be an easy feature to implement, and it's much in demand. Strange that it seems to be beyond the abilities of so many software developers.

I don’t think shots were intended to be fired at the Mozilla corporation, who can’t stop talking about their default, opt-out AI, but it paints a stark picture of the difference between a company that preaches privacy and choice, versus a company that actually provides those things.

I think they're also taking shots on telemetry. Firefox uses telemetry as evidence to support their decisions in ways that sometimes seem contrived or statistically incorrect (similar to only x% of people turned this default feature off, therefore it is good), making me feel as a user that contributing my telemetry to them is actually a bad thing that is encouraging their behaviour. Meanwhile TDF makes great software that follows what the community wants and needs without any telemetry collection.

Interesting perspective. As AI becomes more common in software development, choosing when not to use AI could become just as important as choosing when to use it

Thanks for (re?)posting this. I don't love LibreOffice, but I do love their stance on this. I liked Microsoft Office until they added AI (and doubled the price!). They got $60 a year from me for about 10 years, but now they get nothing. I started using Apple's iWork suite, though I don't much like it, but Apple added AI stuff in. I'd ignore it, but around every corner it's like "don't you want to pay for the AI and some other crap?" No. No TF I don't. So, I think I'll just roll with LibreOffice.

I also appreciate that they offer torrent downloads. That allows me to download from other users, take the load off their server, and then share my download with other users. That's always nice.