Furores are fermenting in the forums

Both Ubuntu and Fedora have made it official: support is coming soon for running local generative AI instances.

An epic and still-growing thread in the Fedora forums states one of the goals for the next version: the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective. It is causing some discontent, and at least one Fedora contributor, SUSE’s Fernando Mancera, has resigned.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
    427·
    2 days ago

    -The system image will not be pre-configured with applications that inspect or monitor how users interact with the system or otherwise place user privacy at risk.

    -Tools and applications included in the AI Desktop will not be pre-configured to connect to remote AI services.

    -AI tools will not be added to Fedora’s existing system images, Editions, etc, by the AI Desktop initiative.

    1. It’s a new system image, your Fedora and Ubuntu installs will not be modified.
    2. The applications that would have privacy implications will be opt-in by default.
    3. It will not use remote AI unless you configure it to.

    I don’t see the problem.

    • PotatoPie@lemmy.zipEnglish
      73·
      1 day ago

      Add opt in commercials as well that pay the users in AI tokens, and opt in system for selling data on your OS to Palantir that pays user in stocks of Israeli arms dealers, give the users freedom of choice, no problem still \s

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 day ago

        /s

        Oh, I like this game.

        You’re right, if you take something actually happening in reality and append a scary fabricated scenario then it sound scary.

        What an interesting new discovery, I hope nobody tries to apply this in reality. Completely unrelated, Have you considered a career in politics?

        I apologize to the community for lacking the paranoid delusions required to see how a project staffed by volunteers who are creating a system image which users have to choose to install was actually part of a plot by the Illuminati to force people to sell their soul to the Antichrist.

        As a unwitting tool of The Man, I throw myself at the mercy of the community’s judgement. Please scourge me most thoroughly so that I may repent from my evil ways of observing reality as it appears.

    • potustheplant@feddit.nlEnglish
      112·
      2 days ago

      Of using resources to implement a “feature” that users have already expressed they don’t want? Weird, I do.

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        1 day ago

        The users would be the people who choose to install the new system image. The system image which will be created by a group of people who volunteer to create it.

        If you’re not using the new system image then this doesn’t affect you at all.

        The only opinions that matter here are the ones of the people who are choosing to donate their time to the project. If you think that more development time should be allocated to one project over another then you are free to volunteer your time in order to make that happen.

        You are not free to volunteer the time of other people, however.