Author: mesyeti <mesyeti@mesyeti.uk>
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diff --git a/wiki/ai-threatens-the-computer.md b/wiki/ai-threatens-the-computer.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d64b63e4ab54b411bdfeac32f1bc3bd5d84b23a --- /dev/null +++ b/wiki/ai-threatens-the-computer.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +# AI threatens the computer +Written by MESYETI on the 1st of June 2026 + +This is the first of two articles for the non-bloat collective about generative AI and +its consequences, the next one will be "AI threatens us all". + +This collective primarily exists to fight bloat, which is an issue that has been attacking +the computer for a long while now. In this decade, the rise of generative AI has started +to also attack the computer. This article will focus solely on Large Language Models (LLMs). +Other forms of generative AI (image, audio, and video generation) will be discussed +in the next article. + +Generative AI is this new thing that has become interesting to some people and is +supposedly improving all the time. It seems like a lot of people (older people I think?) +have an obsession with it and/or are fascinated by it. They're willing to look past +what is so evil about it and how it really isn't as good as they think it is. They become +reckless, and are willing to use it dangerously. + +The rest of this article will be cases of this, and more will be added in the future. + +## Case one: rsync +At the time of writing this, the LLM "Claude" is 2nd in the list of contributors in the +past 3 months, ranked by number of commits. It is the 3rd highest for all time. The rsync +repository started in 1996, and rsync is one of the most popular programs used on Linux. +Claude was able to become the 3rd highest contributor in a 30 year old repository because +the maintainer decided to start letting Claude go wild on the codebase, with 15,035 +additions in the past 3 months. + +This, of course, worsened the stability of rsync. It led to rsync failing to compile +on older versions of Linux (without `openat2`, according to #905, #924), and older +Darwin (according to #896). It also led to features being broken (#910, #915, #897). diff --git a/wiki/pages.md b/wiki/pages.md index 7e724b455e6639952e8292d2ef4b6210e40bc45e..e0da1087fa40ec674d97f180f4edfdacfa295ba7 100644 --- a/wiki/pages.md +++ b/wiki/pages.md @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ # Pages ## Main - [Home](/index.html) +## Articles +- [AI threatens the computer](/ai-threatens-the-computer.html) +- [Good Software](/good-software.html) + ## Collective projects - [DUI - Modular GUI library](/dui.html)