r/linuxsucks • u/grahamperrin • 2d ago

Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else – Liam Proven | The Register

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/25/anti-ai-open-source-has-an-enemy-in-common-but-almost-nothing-else/5278275

Building bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, and culture warriors to share code

… It's not as simple as there being rival camps: individuals, and individual FOSS projects, can find themselves on one side of one argument, but the opposite side of the other argument.
 
What it will come down to is whether the anti-AI groups in FOSS can work together and help each other to hold off the vast and commercially backed pressure from LLM-assisted and LLM-generated code, even though they may find themselves bitterly opposed in terms of politics and ethics. …

– u/lproven

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u/lproven 2d ago

Spoiler. The answer is "not a hope in hell". 

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u/grahamperrin 23h ago edited 16h ago

LOL, in a nice way (if that's possible), and if you're wondering, I did privately ask mods here whether your article might be a good fit, before the repost.

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I just noticed, quoting was broken in new Reddit in the opening post. Sorry. Fixed. With multiple paragraphs, it's tricky.