@catsalad

Poor spies. Signed up to do cool James Bond stuff. Ended up sitting on LinkedIn all day.

So don't get too worked up about an individual using LLMs, that's not what's undermining the very foundations of FOSS. It's a drivel-spewing idiot who's happily planning to sink another 100 billion $ on a probabilistic text generator. We're talking about people using money that could have solved several world-spanning problems - even profitted from doing so! - and still didn't. That's who we're talking about.

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So repeat after me: the CEOs, the executives, the decision-makers, every single moron running this circus could have used a minuscule amount of the money they spent on it to fund the FOSS ecosystem but they didn't. And guess what, they would have benefitted from it! Immensely! But they still didn't.

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Current estimates set the total amount of money that has been spent on large-language models and adjacent generative AI at 1.4 trillion $ over the past four years. For the sake of simplicity let's cut that to 1 trillion $. With 1% of that money you could have paid 25000 FOSS maintainers 100k dollars per year each over the same time period. That probably covers most of the FOSS ecosystem and then some. And it's one percent. ONE FUCKING PERCENT.

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