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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50057615

If this wasn't enough, there's even more among the silver members, such as OpenAI and NVidia.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)
  1. People are irrational. This is especially true to tech bros.
  2. Techbros are usually true believers.
  3. They need a sales pitch. What is better than putting AI slop code into a kernel trusted by billions of people?
[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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. :(

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, it's a bit like not letting a cat around babies because you saw it kill a rabbit once. Corporations are safe around these projects in a way they are not with their own proprietary code.

[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

in the case of microsoft, it's like not letting a cat around babies because you saw it scratch the baby and bite the baby and the cat said "i'm gonna eat that baby" and licks its lips and bites the baby again

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I totally get what you're saying. Microsoft engineered Embrace, Extend, Exterminate, where it would take open standards, extend them in a proprietary manner, then use their market dominance to kill the open standard. Bill Gates has definitely killed some babies.

But I'm saying it can't kill the baby if its contributing directly to an open source project that everyone has equal access to.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Android is using the Linux kernel as its base.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, I thought it originally used it as a base, then developed independently. So the Linux kernel updates find their way to android?

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not putting slop into the kernel so their servers still run without a hitch

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tech bros think the user is responsible for slop, not the AI model.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

They're just wrong lol