There appears to be a few bad actors in the Lemmy community spreading ragebait for personal gain
In fact, the same mechanisms added at the beginning to catch bad human written code are the exact same that catch bad AI code
- No, the Linux kernel won’t use AI to auto approve code for inclusion. And no plans to do so
- The Kernel actually has a huge number of maintainers. As part of the process, all patches are reviewed by a human who provide feedback as part of the process, and patches get bounced back and forth multiple time.
- Patches don’t just magically go straight to master. The maintainers generally have their own branches where it goes to, then it goes to staging trees like Linux-Next. It goes through many eyes, and many tests by the end. The idea that AI code is overrunning the kernel is rediculous
- Maintainers also check that the code meets coding guidelines and is written properly, and solves the problem they are trying to solve. Yes, they also ensure the code isn’t slop
- LLM’s though might be used to identify obvious problems (bugs / coding guideline issues) with the code. These don’t generate “slop” just find issues
- The only thing that matters is the human who submitted the code, as they should be checking the code submitted anyway (including LLM generated code).
Writing bad code isn’t something new, and isn’t unique to LLM’s. Coders (and it seems some “journalists”) have been writing slop since computers were invented.
The process hasn’t gotten less stringent (probably even MORE stringent as there is an additional set of robotic eyes that can also check), and the same mechanisms that were put in place to catch badly written code 10 years ago, are still there now
I’ve been saying this a lot recently but, AI is like a hammer.
Any idiot can swing a hammer. Not every idiot can build a house.
Ai is the same, it can be used crudely and cause problems, or with care and thought and be used to create something functional and reliable.
The entire concept of hating ai is fundamentally retarded.
Hating the corpos and people abusing it makes sense. They are the ones causing environmental damage, they are the ones stealing and causing legal issues, they are the ones lying.
Ai in and if it self. Is sitting there doing nothing. Because it’s a fucking tool. Nothing more or less.
Ai can’t hurt you. Ai can’t fucking do anything because it’s not alive. It has no will or wants or agenda.
Yet people all over the Internet and lemmy is really bad about this. Seems so far up their own asses on the hate train they forgot a tool can’t do anything without a person using it.
Ai companies are a bane and a pox on society and need to be taxed into oblivion, shut down, and the ceos likely jailed.
But the people aren’t the tool.
Judge people by their actions. Stop judging a fucking tool like it’s a person.
Hating LLMs because of how it is made and the resources it takes isn’t retarded. Companies are literally stealing work of millions of people with no consequences at all and the environmental cost is added on top of that so that Uncle Fuckface can generate an image of himself as a vampire or next to Abraham Lincoln.
I work with a client that has a full engineering team and they outsourced their project to us because they didn’t have the bandwidth and pretty much every response we receive is a AI generated email or document for a design they provided themselves that they don’t understand. When challenged about their design, I get met with deer in the headlights stare because they don’t know what they gave us.
There are many reason to legitimately hate LLMs