Open source projects will tell you they have no choice but to allow slop, because doing anything else is a form of gatekeeping that will exclude too many potential contributors.

Nothing could be further than the truth, though. When the review queue is a non-stop machine gun of giant, bogus drive-by patches, the good contributions will inevitably fall through the cracks.

Eventually, the contributors you actually want—those who care about the long-term health of the code base, building institutional knowledge, improving their craft, mentorship—will simply leave, because they will realize their limited time and energy is better spent elsewhere.

A blanket ban on LLM contributions is not impractical, idealistic, or too radical—it's just common sense.

Fundado por Richard Stallman en 1983, el Proyecto GNU nació para crear un sistema operativo completamente libre, rechazando las restricciones del software privativo. Su compromiso ético se plasmó en la Licencia Pública General (GPL), garantizando a los usuarios las libertades de usar, estudiar, compartir y mejorar el código. Junto al núcleo Linux, dio vida al sistema GNU/Linux, pilar de la soberanía digital actual.

#ProyectoGNU #SoftwareLibre #GPL #CulturaLibre #Mastodon

En 1991, el estudiante Linus Torvalds creó el Kernel Linux como un proyecto personal. Al carecer de un sistema operativo completo, lo combinó con las herramientas del Proyecto GNU, dando origen a GNU/Linux. Como núcleo, gestiona el hardware, la memoria y los procesos. Su adopción bajo la licencia GPL lo transformó en un esfuerzo global y colaborativo, impulsando hoy desde teléfonos Android y servidores web hasta supercomputadoras.

#Linux #Kernel #SoftwareLibre #OpenSource #Mastodon

La IA generativa no aumenta la creatividad como su lema publicitario promete. Un estudio del MIT Media Lab, liderado por Natalia Kosmyna, revela que, al usarla, la conectividad neuronal disminuye hasta un 55%.

Preocupación en el entorno educativo por consecuencias perjudiciales para el aprendizaje a largo plazo. 🧵

The Luddites were not the first to refuse technology - the ancient Greeks and medieval Christians did so much before. Thomas Dekeyser's awesome book "Techno-Negative" uses that history to make the violence in liberal humanism explicit. This also applies to how we deal with "AI".

Technology is not progress and it was never linear. An extremely thought-provoking book that got me pondering humanism (in e.g. Hannah Arendt and Langdon Winner). Check out the blog article: https://www.structural-integrity.eu/towards-a-more-open-ended-future-through-refusal-thomas-dekeyers-techno-negative/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arteesetica/116785931600631919

Esto llevo yo diciéndoselo todo el curso a mis compañeres, a dirección y al consejo escolar, que en cinco años estaremos prohibiendo el uso de la IA en el aula como ahora hacemos con los móviles, y lo único que he recibido en respuesta es condescendencia y comentarios de "bueno, pero la IA es una herramienta más, como el canva".

Igual estoy equivocado y va a ser antes de cinco años eh.

RE: https://retro.pizza/@mrencyclopedia/116767709992953410

Hi it’s me, “English speaker who learned grammatical nightmare Dutch and then randomly decided it was time to get serious about Chinese, and did in fact learn to read Chinese”

Make your own flash cards. Write your own notes. Ideally with pen and paper, but if that’s not an option, type it letter by letter or use speech-to-text. Don’t copy-paste. Don’t autocomplete. Don’t generate with AI. You need to use YOUR hands or YOUR voice if you want to change YOUR brain, YOUR own inner neural network weights.

I’ve been trying an Obsidian plugin called HiWords. You select a word, right click, and add a definition; from then on, that word will be highlighted in Obsidian notes, and you can hover to see your definition. Elegant, helpful, I like it.

They have a (completely optional, opt-in) functionality to shell out to an LLM for filling in the definition. I imagine that a lot of students requested this functionality, and it wasn’t hard to implement, so I understand why they added it. I can see why the students want it; it sounds so much more efficient, so much more ✨data✨ per effort to get the vocabulary collection up and running. But it’s self-defeating. It’s drowning your senses in noise that won’t stick in your memory. Two or three words you took the time to look up and write down yourself are vastly more helpful than a paragraph churned out by a machine.

Do it by hand, learn it by heart. 📓💖

#languagelearning #languages

Google just called its new AI Search the "biggest upgrade in 25 years" but really, it's killing the open web.  😡

The open web was built by millions of people sharing knowledge freely → Now, Google who owns the monopoly on Search is ruining it. 

We wrote about what's really happening, and what you can do about it 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/why-google-ai-search-is-bad

#AI #AISearch #Google