Flathub, one of the most popular ways to grab applications on Linux, has a newly updated generative AI policy - where it's pretty much all banned.
  • disorderlyEnglish
    321·
    4 months ago

    Honestly not an insane stance for an app repository. LLMs puke out what they ate, and there’s a perfectly reasonable concern that they might not have legal authorization to everything they trained on. I definitely wouldn’t want to get sued for hosting an app that is found to be in violation of a license agreement.

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    261·
    4 months ago

    Fair. Maybe a separate repo makes sense for the wild West of vibe apps, but flathub is really more focused on end users whom will absolutely commit a murder if they find out the documentation they have been using and failing to do what they want was just gas lighting them.

    • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      51·
      4 months ago

      Maybe a separate repo makes sense for the wild West of vibe apps

      AIUR: For those who want to play Lemmings with a penguin reskin

    • GreenKnight23English
      2·
      4 months ago

      Not gonna be a long term solution. AI generated code is here to stay.

      that’s fine. it can go get published on other platforms that allow shitty low quality software. is Tucows still around? go publish it there.

    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      51·
      4 months ago

      I guess even though you can’t tell if propriety code has AI code in it, it goes along with

      there is an exception noted for “mature, well-maintained projects” but it’s not a guarantee.

      • petsoi@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        31·
        4 months ago

        However, this could also be left up to the user by labeling the applications accordingly, as is the case with proprietary applications. When it comes to quality, I’d say: you can produce poor-quality code even without AI, but it’s a lot more work 😀️