I have been using Linux for over 8 months now, and my primary distribution of choice was Debian.

Debian recently conducted a community vote on allowing AI contributions, and it ended up allowing responsible AI contributions.

What is this responsible? How can AI commits be responsible? There are thousands of reasons to not use AI, and the primary reason is AI is a thief.

How did you react to Debian’s decision? Did you switch distros? Which one was your option, and why?

Also, when the Linux kernel itself allows AI commits, is there any practicality in a Linux distribution strictly limiting or restricting AI commits?

I have no serious usability issue with Debian now but am concerned about the use of AI even in my Linux distribution. Should I keep going with Debian or consider any other distribution, as I only have 8+ months of experience as a daily Linux user? I tried almost all Linux distros and am comfortable with everything except Void Linux and highly complex ones like Gentoo.

      • dusk@piefed.socialEnglish
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        13 hours ago

        Aside from turning a lot of it into crap, it will push people away from open source (I already assume that everything posted under open source on lemmy, reddit etc is now ai trash, and a lot of it is immediately called out), it will also be used as a way for open source to be labelled as unsafe, and unregulated, leading to more and more hurdles, and giving the big corporations more, and more control.

        • mildseason@sopuli.xyz
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          4 hours ago

          I just don’t know if that’s true. Yes there are vibe coded projects everywhere but most of them can be ignored. They don’t really have a bearing on the popular stable projects. Those projects will continue to be developed and as long as they don’t accept vibe commits the quality won’t go down.

          I don’t know how open source could be labelled unsafe when the code is there for everyone to see. Yes Google is trying to lock down Android but that’s not an AI problem, that’s a capitalism problem.

          Even then, i can’t see how corporations could kill open source. They can never stop people using their free time to develop code and releasing it under GPL.

          • dusk@piefed.socialEnglish
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            3 hours ago

            ai is very much a capitalism problem, it is owned, and pushed by the worst people, while also allowing lazy morons to do things beyond their understanding. The powers that be know all too well how to manipulate the public, and they own the media.

            Graphene is often referred to as a hacker os for instance