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   Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Sunday, 19-Apr-2026 03:16:07 JST Matthew Garrett

   Free software people: A major goal of free software is for individuals to be able to cause software to behave in the way they want it to
   LLMs: (enable that)
   Free software people: Oh no not like that

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 19-Apr-2026 03:16:04 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Radek Pietruszewski

     @mjg59 @radex Interesting!

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Sunday, 19-Apr-2026 03:16:05 JST Matthew Garrett

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     • Radek Pietruszewski

     @radex See I fundamentally don't believe that code should be copyrightable and also me 30 years ago did not produce code that was suitable for professional use but it fixed my problems anyway

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     Radek Pietruszewski (radex@social.hackerspace.pl)'s status on Sunday, 19-Apr-2026 03:16:07 JST Radek Pietruszewski

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     @mjg59 This doesn't feel right to me. IMO few people actually object to use of LLMs by individuals for tinkering on personal stuff.

     The criticism as I see it is primarily that:
     1) there are huge societal/political impacts - uncompensated use of copyrighted material; benefits of it accruing primarily to a few big players; energy use; layoffs; perceived misallocation of massive amounts of capital
     2) the output quality of LLMs is t r a s h, unsuitable for professional use

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-Apr-2026 20:25:23 JST 翠星石

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     @mjg59 >cause software to behave in the way they want it to
     >LLM
     Um, LLM's can copy and slopify a lot of code, but it's a gamble every time whether it doesn't copy what you want, or copies what you want, but due to the lack of understanding includes subtle bug(s) that will bite you later.