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LLM Slop Versus Free Software: "Denial of Service Attack" by LLM Bots, 'Linux' Foundation Promotes Slop and "Attestation" for Microsoft, and More
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The Anarcat ☛ Antoine Beaupré: A more nuanced view of LLMs [Ed: Phoronix ☛ AI/LLM Usage Becoming A "Denial of Service Attack" On Open-Source Project Maintainers]
Also in this series:
- The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse
- The people vs the Hey Hi (AI) overlords
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Tim Retout: TF RAID
My hobby: following GOV.UK to look for interesting announcements. Today was an update on the MOD’s Rapid Hey Hi (AI) Delivery Taskforce which was previously announced in June during London Tech Week.
I like this line: “Success is measured in operational advantage delivered, not technology demonstrated.” To me it recalls “Working software is the primary measure of progress” from Principles behind the Agile Manifesto – if you understand “working” to mean “working in production”. Which I do.
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Security Week ☛ 'Linux' Foundation to Govern TRACE, an Open Standard for Hey Hi (AI) Runtime Attestation [Ed: 'Linux' Foundation serves Microsoft, pyramid scheme (slop), and "Attestation"]
TRACE was developed by AMD, Intel, Microsoft, OPAQUE, and TII and contributed to the 'Linux' Foundation.
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HPC Wire ☛ Linux Foundation Welcomes TRACE to Advance Verifiable Runtime Evidence for AI Workloads
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The Job Is Not Yours to Ban
Some people seem to be tempted to say, "I dislike LLMs, so my license should forbid LLM training." Four essential freedoms define free software. The first of those freedoms, Freedom 0, is for any purpose. That phrase - "any purpose" - doesn't come with hidden footnotes. It doesn't mean "any purpose except training a language model." It doesn't mean "any purpose I personally approve of." It doesn't mean "any purpose performed directly by a human hand without any kind of automation."
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The moment it does, it ceases to be a free software license and opens a slippery slope because once a license can forbid one use, it can forbid any use.
After ranting and railing about LLMs or "AI" as the optimists (or accelerationists?) call it, I figured it might be important to be a little more honest about my use of LLMs and how I think about it more practically in the world.