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I'm calling the community for help. If you would like your voice heard at the Maintainer Summit, please contact me by e-mail (laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com) to share your opinions on AI usage in the Linux kernel. Unless you explicitly request to be named, I will strictly respect your privacy and anonymize all the feedback I receive before sharing it with kernel maintainers. Please don't wait until the last minute as the week leading to the summit will be very busy. (5/5)
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Jonathan Corbet
corbethttps://www.404media.co/doom-loop-openai-and-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/
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Jonathan Corbet
corbetAnd say what you will, but the kernel community has had a lot of success in (eventually) convincing companies to play along.
But yes, I don't think the GPL has a lot of force when it comes to keeping companies from using any project of mine in proprietary ways.
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Steve Streza
stevestreza@indieweb.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141
Ok, genuinely, tech journalists need to investigate why so much money is being laundered into Omarchy. A bunch of slopware from a white supremacist does not deserve $18 million when real Linux projects have gone unfunded for years. There has to be something else going on here.
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corbethttps://media.defense.gov/2026/Sep/08/2003992823/-1/-1/1/CSA_CHINA_BASED_AI_COMPANIES_MALICIOUS_DISTILLATION_AGAINST_US.PDF
"China-based AI companies route distillation requests through multiple pathways to gain
unauthorized access, consequently violating U.S. AI companies’ terms of use."
I'm shocked that an AI company would do such a thing. Certainly no US-based AI company would route requests through multiple paths to gain access...right...?
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Luis Villa
luis_in_brief@social.coopI miss the old-fashioned FOSS drama, where if you knew someone’s three-letter initials and they were an asshole, you just called them an asshole or ignored them, and didn’t worry that (1) they were a vengeful billionaire and/or (2) that they represented the pending downfall of democracy
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corbetI am still trying to understand just what a "hash collision" would mean in that context; perhaps I don't have enough weed in the house to obtain the necessary insight.
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Greg K-H
gregkh(not that it's not fun every year, but you get the idea...)
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corbet1) Poke LLMs for a while and see which nonexistent URLs they hallucinate most often.
2) Register those domains and put malicious web sites behind them.
3) Profit!
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cyberattacks-llm-slop-squatting
(What a world we have made...)
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Jonathan Corbet
corbetIncluded therein was this text: "Why I'm the right person for this: [I'd fill this in with your own background here — e.g. kernel contribution history, mailing-list involvement,
relevant professional experience, or prior writing]"
It forgot to tell this person to point out their attention to detail as well.
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Jonathan Corbet
corbethttps://500songs.com/podcast/episode-164-white-light-white-heat-by-the-velvet-underground/
It's excellent, as are all the episodes there; this is the production that finally forced me to create a Patreon account so I could toss money at its creator.
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