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What happens when people use LLM's to recreate thousands of open source projects in seconds, and relicense them all to more permissive licenses? 
Dipping in to this #FOSDEM talk:
Let's end open source together with this one simple trick
live here now: https://live.fosdem.org/watch/ub5230
In a time of war, the free & open source infrastructure shouldn't build weapons!
Instead it should be used to defend communities, and should be funded as such, suggests Leenaars
Sensitive content : disordered eating
These models are ingesting everything and anything, indiscriminately. They're over-eating
At a certain point they'll be ingesting their own excrement & barfing that up, suggests Leenaars
"There's no Claude, there's just other people's code", Leenaars offers a reality check
What and who do you depend on in your projects? How fragile is that infrastructure?
The pager explosions in Lebanon in 2024, during which thousands were wounded an many Lebanese people got killed, was a zionist supply chain attack
What does war look like today?
"It's not [just] enemy lines, it's your lines of code that are causing real-world damage", says Leenaars
As a form of warfare, code & computation is:
- Super cheap
- Very low risk
- High yield
Dependency on short-form content & LLMs is hampering childrens' brain development, suggests Leenaars
It's a form of dementia, but worse, because they're not even developing a fully functioning brains
(disclaimer: i don't know the exact studies on this, just reporting the talk)
But don't fall into the trap of jumping into European-based big tech!
That'd be the same predators, just based in a different location
Instead, what this moment needs is social initiative, not more 🤑 says Leenaars
It's Stockholm syndrome, Leenaars says.
Mentions the example of the Dutch government - ministry of Finance making a big project out of moving to Microsoft, even though this creates:
- More dependence on US-based tools
- Productivity loss