Linux Creator Linus Torvalds To Anti-AI Devs: Go Fork Yourself

The strength of open-source software is that it's open, which is to say that anyone can contribute to it. Sometimes, this also means that your project can attract persons with conflicting worldviews. No open-source project is bigger than Linux itself, and recently the Linux Kernel project has been grappling with calls from certain contributors who feel that Linux should take an assertive anti-AI stance. Top-level maintainer and Linux creator Linux Torvalds has "put his foot down" on the issue, and his stance is clear: Linux is about the technology, not ideology.

Replying to a post where prominent Googler Roman Guschin remarks on the AI use recommendations of the Software Freedom Conservancy by calling them "anti-LLM in general", Torvalds spoke up to agree, saying that "Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it." This...

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