Ignore the ignorant purity test of the outrage junkies. Half of the ‘people’ stirring shit on this topic are probably LLMs themselves.
AI is a technology.
The rampant investment into that technology by capital and the market manipulations and fraud are the dangerous thing to societal stability. It’s the trillions of dollars poured into the technology in an attempt to buy a monopoly which is generating all of the secondary effects that people are complaining about.
People are, I’d argue intentionally, confusing the two things. The Western AI Industry is bad but it is a separate thing from machine learning technologies.
Pretending that the entire technology is bad because a bunch of people with infinite wallets are destroying the economy and ecosystem in order to make profits is ignorant.
Trying to paint every project, person or group that uses AI with the same brush as the people who are creating all of the negative effects is misdirecting anger away from the people making the decisions and blaming a technology.
Great. So what distro should I be using now?
The one you want.
Ignore the ignorant purity test of the outrage junkies. Half of the ‘people’ stirring shit on this topic are probably LLMs themselves.
AI is a technology.
The rampant investment into that technology by capital and the market manipulations and fraud are the dangerous thing to societal stability. It’s the trillions of dollars poured into the technology in an attempt to buy a monopoly which is generating all of the secondary effects that people are complaining about.
People are, I’d argue intentionally, confusing the two things. The Western AI Industry is bad but it is a separate thing from machine learning technologies.
Pretending that the entire technology is bad because a bunch of people with infinite wallets are destroying the economy and ecosystem in order to make profits is ignorant.
Trying to paint every project, person or group that uses AI with the same brush as the people who are creating all of the negative effects is misdirecting anger away from the people making the decisions and blaming a technology.
There’s this list of distros that actively reject AI/LLM contributions.
I’ve found that AntiX also rejects AI usage based on a conversation about it in their forum, but they are based on Debian, so…
There’s also this list with a few more not listed in the first.
I’m going to try to switch to NetBSD. The FreeBSD policy is not settled. The OpenBSD and Linux Kernel policies are permissive.