Show Notes
With several open source figures taking a stance on either side of the generative AI debate, we have another argument about it. This time we actually come to something closer to an understanding of each other’s views, even if we still end up disagreeing.
News/discussion
Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 5th September from 5pm until late
“Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it”
Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian
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