An alarming and growing number of leaders in open source are starting to embrace generative AI and "agents" etc. We need to push back and let them know that we as a FOSS community do not want this.

[joeress@mastodon.social]

An alarming and growing number of leaders in open source are starting to embrace generative AI and "agents" etc. We need to push back and let them know that we as a FOSS community do not want this. We must all do our duty to say no to this unethical technology.

[americanjeff@mastodon.social]

@joeress Any particular leaders stand out? I haven't seen the headlines to match this and searching for "open source leaders embracing ai" isn't turning up anything.

[yoasif@mastodon.social]

@americanjeff @joeress Example: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/hobby-github-repo-shows-linus-torvalds-vibe-codes-sometimes/

[americanjeff@mastodon.social]

@yoasif @joeress OK. I have seen that previously and didn't get the impression that he was embracing any unethical use of generative AI, he just used it to code up a personal project.

[rexi@mastodon.social]

@joeress

we're still in a legal grey zone on culpability for AAI misdeeds, too.

wild wild West.

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@joeress you call it duty, i call it basic sanity.