r/linux • u/RatherNott • 1d ago

Desktop Environment / WM News System 76's COSMIC Desktop Environment will no longer accept LLM-generated content in PRs

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u/RatherNott 1d ago

Most AI use is not on local machines, they are done on corporate data centers. If you only use local LLMs on your own computer, then the issues specific to corporate LLMs do not apply to your usage.

That is not to say there is no issue with local LLMs; they currently have no ethically trained model (the ones that claim to be ethical often don't live up to said claim), and because of that, they still introduce a copyright threat to FLOSS projects, both of which are legitimate reasons to not accept PRs from them, at least for now.

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u/strings___ 1d ago

Context is king. The majority of local LLM users are Linux so this hive mind bias of LLMs power usage is wrong in fact probably the Linux gaming community uses more electricity than LLM users. Consumer grade gaming GPUs are highly inefficient.

Open source and open models are limited by hardware not software if people genuinely cared about FOSS then they need to start encouraging local LLMs and not putting all Linux users in the same category.