Linus Torvalds, about AI, said that if people don’t like it they can fork it. Does anyone know any linux kernel forks that attempt this? Getting rid of “tainted” commits, even if that would mean going back in time a few years?
I don’t want to discuss the use of AI in the kernel. I am just curious and couldn’t really find any forks (only the linus quote pops up on search engines).
As someone who is pretty anti AI in general, this is my personal opinion on FOSS projects. I fully understand and support people forking FOSS projects that have an AI policy they disagree with, but the community is so small and overworked as is I worry about further fracturing. I’m not a kernel contributor, so as long as they are keeping the same or higher standards, I’m not going to complain about where the code came from. I think your comment about accountability is really important and something I agree with as well.
Afaik thats also Linux Torvalds stance. It’s a tool, and it cannot be held responsible, that’s always on you
And I rather agree there. Don’t really care if you typed it in notpad without auto completion, or vibe coded it. I want you to understand your PR and be able to explain it.
Honestly I’m leaning more and more towards advocating for people to use AI responsibly instead of outright rejecting it.
Yes the environmental impact is insane, but I feel like that’s mostly because they keep pushing it to do more and more. But I think we’re well past the sweet spot of what work AI should take off our shoulders. Remove too much and you end up with Meat Proxies.
Tho that only applies to things where only the result matters, like code. Pragmatic stuff, that’s there to serve a specific purpose.
Art is the exact opposite. The process matters, the struggles, the successes, the setbacks. It’s a thing of passion, and that can never be truly replaced by a machine.