I hate AI but anyone who wants to help fund Linux kernel development is welcome to. As long as the code remains open, what kind of nefarious thing can they really do? I think this is irrational.
Fuck AI
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Use it both as advertisement for their slop, and even ruin it at least temporarily. Sure, you can fork it due to its open source nature, but a nightmare scenario will require new volunteers (AI psychosis is kind of a plague within the industry), removing the affected code, and replace it with something that actually works. Even harder is if it just becomes spaghetti slop, the code operates mostly correctly, but hard to decipher and correct the moment it will have issues.
Youre doing the advertising for them by spamming them across lemmy.
What's the problem? All those companies have a vested interest in not letting any of those other companies from poison-pilling the kernel. I hate corporations, but they're also the ones with the money to invest in Linux instead of Microsoft Server subscriptions.
Am I missing something?
Linus torvalds actually wrote about this in his book just for fun. He does believe in companies contributing and that not everyone was on the same page
- People are irrational. This is especially true to tech bros.
- Techbros are usually true believers.
- They need a sales pitch. What is better than putting AI slop code into a kernel trusted by billions of people?
Re: 3: because most of those companies probably rely on Linux for their operations, while a few like Microsoft and Samsung, do have some serious conflicts of interest.
Your point would stand if any of those companies had recently shown a shred of evidence that they're capable of planning further into the future than next quarter. :(
Android is using the Linux kernel as its base.
Oh, I thought it originally used it as a base, then developed independently. So the Linux kernel updates find their way to android?
Not putting slop into the kernel so their servers still run without a hitch
They clearly don't give a shit whether their servers stay up, though.
This has been a weird year where the cultists decided that don't need to keep normies around to steer their servers farms.
Tech bros think the user is responsible for slop, not the AI model.
They're just wrong lol