@fedward @bms48 @mcc WELL fuck me.

@fedward @mcc @trashheap You're not going to like this, but there are FreeBSD folk who are looking to leverage Generative AI, but in a very limited and targeted way, e.g. automated code reviews. We would aim to do it in a controlled way away from Microsoft's monopolistic interest as Douglas Rushkoff predicted would happen. It isn't a strict go/no-go area. The UK CDPA act does offer copyright protection to GenAI content but the key test is originality (system prompts must be very specific).

@fedward @mcc @trashheap It is something of an arms race. I have already punted on reviewing a code contribution made as a GitHub PR which was essentially a semi-vibe-coded TCP socket stats scraper. It didn't add much to the kernel itself, or the TCP stack, so we asked the submitter to submit it as a 3rd party kernel module in ports. Limited use of GenAI is exactly what Jensen Huang doesn't want, but it's the only economically viable application IMHO because of LLM shortcomings and limits.

@fedward @mcc @trashheap When I raised the issue of authorship and individual/SME IP rights being diluted or undermined on the internal list, one FreeBSD developer responded by calling me a "luddite" which showed only he hadn't seriously considered the intellectual property issues at all, or how to use GenAI for good without succumbing to greedy corporate interest. It is looking like local on-prem models may be the way forward, the stranglehold of OpenAI and Anthropic on the tech must be broken.