Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments

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• ajsvisuals@lemmy.zip ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Well said.

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• treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.

  Open source came about because people wanted to learn (and help others learn) and because they wanted to modify software for their own purposes. Even before copyleft came into play, people would share their work to just share what they did with others.

  Later, when things got more complex it became useful to take contributions from others and to build collectively. That made copyleft more useful. And these licenses also became a shield against proprietary aggression.

  I don’t disagree it more often than not results in better software, but that isn’t really my primary motivating factor, personally.

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• Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it’s clearly a useful one.

  It may not have been that “clearly” even just a year ago, but it’s no longer in question today.

  This is such a massive red flag comment. If anything it’s become increasingly clear in the last year how problematic the tech is…

  He follows that up by saying people should make the tools help maintainers not harm them, but suggests no means to do so. This is so blasé and hand wavy, especially when he’s responding to people complaining about how it’s making their jobs harder. “Just use the tools better”. Gee, thanks Linus.

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  • Hiro8811@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He made his stance pretty clear in the video he made with LTT, I agree with him that Machine Learning could be useful but the current LLMs we use are way too power hungry and too complex. I think in the future smaller and more specific models that you could run locally are the way to go.

    Also they have pretty big donations, they could hire some more people

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    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Yeah agreed. It’s pretty wild what the tech can do at the best of times, but it’s just way too half baked on many levels right now to rely on.

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  • AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He also inadvertently exposed he’s using Claude Mythos, and likely in Project Glasswing:

    “it keeps finding embarrassing bugs”
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    anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time.

    Found dissonance here sweet.

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• grandma@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I really hate the comparison with compilers and assemblers. They are deterministic whereas LLMs aren’t.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Eeew

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