2026-09-11 20:24 UTC
Over the last umpteen months, I have seen a repeating pattern in the FLOSS community with respect to AI. Some examples:
- OSI published Open AI guidelines
- Mozilla created Mozilla AI and included AI features in Firefox
- Software Freedom Conservancy published AI guidelines
- Debian had a vote on use of AI
- Internet Archive posted about showing ClimateGPT to students
- Linus Torvalds solved a bug with Claude
- EFF's legal counsel said training was transformative use for copyright purposes
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@evan@cosocial.ca 2026-09-11 20:27
In each of these cases, there was uproar, and some unfortunate brigading of these organizations or their team. I've been especially sorry to see people who've put so much work and time into the Internet and FLOSS get called nasty names or get veiled threats because they work at places that have less-than-abstemious AI strategies.