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@kimothy @pmbauer

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To be fair the scenario was painted by someone else.
Eli responded yes. Meaning that a slave owner's contributions would be accepted.

From their pov, it is not reasonable to police contributors politics or opinions. They care only about the quality of code. Which is fair.

The ethics of LLMs, are a non-sequiter. It doesn't matter.
FSF and gnu do not take a moral stance in the world although it might often seem that way.

Projects that do deny LLM gen'd code are taking a moral stance. But GNU, FSF and Emacs do not have a problem being like Ed Sheeran on any ethical grounds.

Clade of “Human Emacs” developers want Free/OpenSource software to be small-batch, handmade, organic, untouched by LLMs
https://alecmuffett.com/article/168848
#HumanEmacs #SoftwarePuritanism #ai #emacs #lisp

Clade of “Human Emacs” developers want Free/OpenSource software to be small-batch, handmade, organic, untouched by LLMs

To me it’s rather ironic that the people having this argument are largely working in the archetypal AI research language of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s:

indeed, i have decided that llms are, at every level, an affront to justice, from who makes and profits and pushes them, to how they are trained, to the resources used, to the way they are used, to what they do to people who use them, to what they do to the communities where their use is tolerated. everywhere, and in profound ways, i have looked and seen llms as a destructive force that only exist to empower the few at the incredible, immoral expense of the many.

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Via Royce:

https://infosec.exchange/@tychotithonus/117582160055769826