Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

[Eduardo Ochs]

Esse texto aqui sobre LLMs tem umas seções que eu achei muito boas -
https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html
principalmente estas duas:


Collaboration at danger

It is not purely the digital and civic infrastructures that are
impacted by the use of LLMs. The free/libre software ecosystem, of
which we consider Codeberg an important part of, is a social
phenomenon centered on collaboration. Working in this way is only
possible thanks to free sharing and mutual learning. This includes
even very small tools that are shared and re-used and around which
collaboration can start out. In contrast, by adopting LLMs people tend
to code single-use software from scratch. While this leads to an
increase in 'shared' code, it is mostly code that not only has not
been 'written' by anyone but is also not maintained by anyone.

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Entering a vicious cycle

Together, these forces make collaboration not only harder but also
less rewarding: With the transaction cost of collaboration increasing,
people are becoming less likely to contribute to creating high-quality
software projects and more likely to 'vibecode' a one-off software
that is specific to your need, and won't evolve beyond. We get a
vicious cycle where collaboration is becoming less and less rewarding,
while the amount of single-use software that's unmaintained and never
sees any improvements is going up.

Although often well intentioned, sharing the result of a prompt and
calling it "libre software" does not make the world a better place.
Codeberg is not and does not want to be a place to dump such generated
single-use software that no one else will ever look at. We are a place
for people to collaborate and improve software together. Within this
context, the recent votes can be understood as a reconfirmation of
those principles: As we want to center on human collaboration, we will
not actively support or engage in the creation of LLMs and will not
put our limited resources to use for storing single-use software that
would pollute our FLOSS commons.

[[]],
Eduardo