It is important to understand that the core disagreement is not whether Fedora should support AI development
Sad. Even the kernel seems to be going all in now: https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-declares-massive-ai-fueled-code-surges-as-the-new-normal-for-linux/ I do hope there’ll be a discussion one day, so far no response yet: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/e12330b9-c29e-45ca-9375-9e3d13426d85@horse64.org/T/
Its not AI that is the problem. Its the current investment and business model around the AI tech industry that is the problem.
And it manifests in way more places than just AI.
What’s wrong with the investment and business model? For me the big issue is the training data and licencing. As well as the issue that it genuinely destroys the value of labour at a time when living costs are high.
Yeah, and the brain rot and that AI code is dumb and ruins projects.
So much more seems wrong than just the business model.
This wasn’t about integrating commercial AI, or even AI generated code, but supporting local, open weights AI.
Fedora has approved its own AI Developer Desktop initiative with a unanimous council vote. Three Atomic Desktop images are planned, two of them CUDA-enabled, and none of them would be phoning home to cloud services. source
Personally I saw it as a positive, when only
criminalscorpos havegunsAI etc. Local only alternatives should be encouraged.This is the correct way to do AI, use it when possible locally, without gate keeping its secrets and without violating user’s privacy. If AI is here to stay, I would much rather have alternatives like this than couple tech oligarchs dominating the whole field.
