I'm of an opposite mind. I reckon the author wrote this in the dip, and we'll see a rebound soon where FOSS is strengthened by anti-AI sentiments.

We need to stop being agnostic, draw a line, and begin rejecting any genAI involvement in open source before it’s actually too late.

exactly.

Overall I agree, but it is missing and important aspect: maintainability.

This is maybe the most insidious part of LLM use to write code. Since LLMs have no real understanding of the structure of the project they will duplicate functions and generally make a mess that very quickly becomes unmaintainable by humans. The only "solution" LLM users have for that is perpetually rewriting large swaths of the codebase introducing new bugs, removing features and so on.

Since open-source software is usually especially long lived and maintained by a changing group of people, this results in code bases that are like asbestos that no one wants to even touch.

In addition to the other comments here, we can't rule out the human love for hobbies either. Did I spend 2 days hand coding an entire blog that I won't show to anyone just for fun to learn some HTML and CSS? Hell yeah I did. Will I use that knowledge to make something less chaotically coded that I can actually be proud of? More than likely.

Obviously that won't be a large percentage of the market if even a noticeable one but, I'd like to think hobbyists will help preserve some good open source projects.

I was thinking the other day how easy it would be for someone malicious to put a back door in whatever AI slop they make

I’d almost rather see all AI generated content be posted to its own separate open source platform “GitSlop” or something

😩 If you want to be absurdly narrow minded and treat OSI like some deity, their word like a holy book, and anything outside of that scripture or benediction as heresy, then maybe you'll see the arrival of AI as some kind of ragnarok.

Opensource will change but it won't be "killed". You can't and won't stop people putting the code for their projects online. The stuff you (or your agent or whatever) publish will continue to be used as an open portfolio.

A good amount of stuff published will be filth and indistinguishable from clonker filth or human filth. Additionally, local AI will also become more common. Making your code indistinguishable will also make the "AI code is unlicensable" argument worthless. Go prove that the trash heap I published was written while drunk and high or by an AI.

I hope my drive-by PRs don't come off in the same way.

For example, as the simplest no-description, no-comment example, when I see typos or wording errors in text on a random blog I check if there's a direct way to contribute - to GitHub edit and submit a PR, and when there is, I do that.

There's nothing for me to say or describe, really, and it's not like I interacted with their project or community before or even plan to after. (Sometimes I do look into the issue tracker etc depending on the project or website. But that's beside the raised concern.)

I see it more of a collective and open collaboration. But that's not necessarily visible on the receiving end.

Conceptually open source is merely a human effort that relies on collaboration and knowledge sharing, however there is a paradox that is rarely talked about, its how that collective collaborative human effort is being used against its purpose.

LLM models take such knowledge from open source, feed it back in a profit first capitalist model, the outcome will always be mediocre output, until mediocracy becomes the norm (actually it is now), so in some way our human nature of being collaborative & seeking to help each other is being punished by the same technology we created.

So we need to start thinking on how to fucking end this shit, i think we need to poison the fuck out of every llm.

Disclaimer: best day of my year was when ballistic missiles were hitting and burning corporate AI data centers in the Middle East.

I don't care about open source software. It's just a way for corpos to make us work without payment.

What I do care about is free/libre software. In my mind, there is only one real shortcoming to the free/libre software movement: corporations.

I want to share my software with other people. Not corporations, but individuals, and I guess non-profit type things.

I would like to see an anti-corpo movement of otherwise entirely libre software development. It would no longer be "free" according to, say, the FSF, but it would be preferable in my opinion.

Correction.... It will make it unaffordable. Not kill but hog up resources... in the material realm as well as other sectors of existence. People join the imperial baby skull crushing fraternity aka the foot soldiers of the zombie corp mercenary army of turdcoat deplorables. Cops/hogs and soldiers are the worst. Their power comes from injustice and conformity lifted up by the marketurds and feasted on by the too stupid to know they are stupids. The over socialized herd will go to the path of least resistance and if what is considered normal is to wear a dildo on your head then they will. That's why you call them dickheads.

They crowd sourced tyranny and got us to build our cages because we forgot how to live. I do not think as they do. No one and I mean no one needs the gipity.

They may have secrets but their actions look stupid. The cutting edge is a wet slimy baby diaper fart.

ah beeps, always enjoy its writing