There's a bit of drama going on with the popular game manager Lutris right now, with users pointing out the developer using AI generated code via Claude.
People simply do not want AI. They don’t want to look at AI “art”, don’t want to listen to AI “music”, don’t want to read AI “books” and don’t want to use AI slopware.
This is both a matter of quality and, more importantly, principles.
And I think it’s safe to say that people in the open source community are more ideological than most. Finding out that a project is relying on exploitative corporate slop of an unknown origin is like the hippy going to the farmer’s market only to find that the guy selling “his local organic free-range cage-free” eggs is just buying factory shit from the supermarket.
I didn’t think anyone blames the Lutris guy for AI at large.
But people are passionate about things and they don’t want to support a project that they perceive is being thoughtlessly programmed, exploiting the labor of others, violating the letter or the spirit of the GPL, supporting a corrupt industry, etc.
Thank you. It’s so infuriating to come into threads like this to find “If you don’t like it, do it yourself” and shit like that. All it does is remove blame from the person making an ignorant decision, and place it on those rightfully upset because “Maybe the dev wouldn’t have been forced to use the environment destroying plagiarism machine if you have been more generous with your time.”
Yeah. But ultimately people will have to fork Lutris, or just use something else (like Faugus, Bottles, Steam, etc.), if they don’t like how things are being run.
Oh for sure, that’s one the benefits of open source stuff, you can do that in the first place. I just mean that seeing blame be misplaced gets under my skin, especially when it comes from such a disingenuous place.
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People simply do not want AI. They don’t want to look at AI “art”, don’t want to listen to AI “music”, don’t want to read AI “books” and don’t want to use AI slopware.
This is both a matter of quality and, more importantly, principles.
And I think it’s safe to say that people in the open source community are more ideological than most. Finding out that a project is relying on exploitative corporate slop of an unknown origin is like the hippy going to the farmer’s market only to find that the guy selling “his local organic free-range cage-free” eggs is just buying factory shit from the supermarket.
I didn’t think anyone blames the Lutris guy for AI at large.
But people are passionate about things and they don’t want to support a project that they perceive is being thoughtlessly programmed, exploiting the labor of others, violating the letter or the spirit of the GPL, supporting a corrupt industry, etc.
Thank you. It’s so infuriating to come into threads like this to find “If you don’t like it, do it yourself” and shit like that. All it does is remove blame from the person making an ignorant decision, and place it on those rightfully upset because “Maybe the dev wouldn’t have been forced to use the environment destroying plagiarism machine if you have been more generous with your time.”
Yeah. But ultimately people will have to fork Lutris, or just use something else (like Faugus, Bottles, Steam, etc.), if they don’t like how things are being run.
Oh for sure, that’s one the benefits of open source stuff, you can do that in the first place. I just mean that seeing blame be misplaced gets under my skin, especially when it comes from such a disingenuous place.