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The highminded part of me says it's bad that this is happening, especially given the freedom Linux still provides from the other, more locked-down options. And that you may still choose to be a maintainer or contributor without being all-in on AI, and it sucks to impact "innocents" that way. And at least what I assume is Torvalds being judicious and not purely vibe-coding is better than people who type "make me a kernel" and expect the world.
The petty part of me says "okay, your project won't be part of the anti-AI ideology, glad to see your project suffer because of it then, even if just in this way."
Yes, its a bit petty, but I can't feel like this is not a "oh, no, consequences of my actions" moment.
Use a machine, which was trained on the stolen knowledge and art of the whole of humanity? Yes, please.
Then feel the pain when the corpos scrape your data? No. None of that.
Nobody would scrape websites that hard, if people would not use generative AI.
I mean didn't they say AI code is allowed, not that you should use ai? Those aren't the same thing but I mean sadly I kind of agree, if you pay (or allow others to pay) corporations you know are evil, and then they're evil towards you... 🤷