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Gabriele Svelto · 2w
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...
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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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Gabriele Svelto · 2w
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 sev...