some nerd: "I just want to have a discussion about LLM use in your project"me: "this is not the place to be having that discussion.

[nein@chaos.social]

@zkat also I think that we are in a good time to build open source software without guarantees and shiny surfaces to escape capitalist appropriation of our work

[tian2992@mastodon.social]

@zkat that's the difference on open source and free software. The power relationships. Fork off and shut up seems a reasonable response on your behalf.

[wakame@tech.lgbt]

@zkat
"Talk to your LLM if you want someone who always tells you that your ideas are great."

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@tian2992 @zkat I would just block immediately. Someone who won't respect that boundary does not deserve any further engagement.

[wrosecrans@mstdn.social]

@xgranade @zkat Some of those people fall down a real rabbit hole of an LLM telling them "that's a great idea!" every day, and they just lose the ability to handle normal interactions that aren't at least that positive in every response.

[maddiem4@raphus.social]

@zkat Open source is (maybe subtly) about maintainership, and LLMs are incredibly hostile to maintainers.

And licensing! I definitely have moved towards the Radical Copyleft over the last two years, after spending most of my career leaning towards permissive licenses, because I finally see the value of having some legal teeth to bite back against bad actors. Even GPL isn't some cure-all though, and it's exhausting.

It's going to be a dark couple years of existing open source exploitation trends/burnout getting worse, which will be recounted by ghouls: "I don't understand why $maintainer doesn't just drink the Radithor I'm hawking! I've never felt more vitality in my bones."