Just seeing the list here: https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
I don't know what to think about it, many incredible open-source projects went downhill, some worse than others, full AI permission usage and some of them even advertise AI providers on README.md. I'm even using many of them myself.
Even the good guys are falling, I'm not sure what to think about it. Am I overreacting maybe?
You might think, that's fine, not a big deal, some of them just allow AI usage, but not AI generated code, but for how long? If you allow use of AI for anything the tendency is that you'll be even more open about it in the future.
List of projects that personally draw my attention or I use eventually:
- Firefox: not unexpected, but still, I had hope on Mozilla bring more tech awareness on mainstream
- Spaceship prompt: I use this on my terminal for customization, why'd you need AI for such a simple project?
- VLC: just sad
- curl: sad x 10
- Vim: sad x 20
- zoxide: they literally promoting AI providers in the README, such a simple tool as well, why?
- CoMaps/Organic Maps/OsmAnd: the few ones providing a good alternative to Google Maps
- Element: that's literally the most used client for Matrix I guess?
- Python: I thought they were the good guys as well
- Lemmy: unexpected, code of conduct says it's allowed
- Linux: the final boss, unbelievable
Is there any hope at all? Or am I just overreacting?
Sadly AI is here to stay and we need to learn to live with it, differencing it by its owners, avoiding those from Big Tech and using it with common sense and there where it is really usefull and needed, not as toy, to create memes or substitute our own intelligence and creativity, but as tool eg.in certain complex and repititive tasks or researches in thousends of documents, where it make sense.
I dont like the environmental impacts of data centers nor the exploitation capabilities of this tool.
I cant get past these two.
I fear we live in a world folks just dont do the right thing. Sure this tool helps a small task, but ultimately, this isnt helping anyone but the wealth hoarders at the moment