TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, they destroy the bargain that made free software spread like wildfire.
Not sure why I’m getting so many downvotes in this thread, aside from the fact that it may sound like I’m standing up for big tech, which I’m not. This article is more or less saying that open source is doomed as a result of big tech’s LLMs, and I’m saying it’s AI that is ultimately doomed and open source will be just fine. AI isn’t going to make it any easier to replicate the open source projects used to train it, well, for the same reason is doomed to fail: AI is based on exaggerated claims. No, companies aren’t going to use AI to make their own Linux kernel not bound by GPL licensing terms. What’s going to happen is the commercial AI bubble is going to pop, perhaps leaving behind open source AI models that will be used for the modest value they bring for certain tasks.