One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite used by tens of millions of people – in schools, hospitals, public bodies, law firms and thousands of other organisations – will not add a feature to its default configuration until that feature can be delivered under the conditions defined by the project in accordance with its principles. User-controlled execution. The user must be able to choose where inference takes place: on the local computer, on an infrastructure directly controlled by the user, or on a service chosen independently by the user. A default setting that silently redirects to a single provider is not a choice. No content may leave the computer without authorisation. The content of documents is a user’s asset and, in many implementations, is also legally protected material: medical records, case files, tender documents and student data. Transmission must be the result of a user’s decision and not behaviour carried out in the background by the application. No telemetry of any kind. LibreOffice does not collect usage data, and this must also apply
  • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It’s incredible how far we’ve got, as far as technology goes. A few months ago, we had to fight to get a device that would not connect to the internet. And now we’re fighting to find software that actually do what it’s supposed to do, and don’t do what it’s not supposed to do.

    Can’t wait for the next step. Heck, can’t even imagine what it will be at this point.

  • Gyrcas@piefed.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It should also be a feature to have no AI used in the production. No AI assets, no AI concept art, no AI code, I don’t want any of that slop touching my software

    • strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I really need to work on my 100% slop-free OS. The bulk of the work is getting a clean kernel setup, the compiler and libc working, and that’s about it; the rest is easy.

      P.S. wow you’re me but a cis dude

      • Gyrcas@piefed.zipEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Nice! Will it be a Linux distro, or its own thing? And if it is its own thing, how will it handle things from other OS, like exe from windows?

        Also, when you say I am you, do you mean from my profile description we are the same? :3c

        • strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          2 days ago

          The Linux kernel is tAInted, so it would need to be forked. My current top choice is the NetBSD: it isn’t going anywhere, and it’s untainted.

          I also looked at Redox (sadly Rust is tAInted, so it’s a no-go), and Haiku (which is just… a little too obscure). GNU Hurd is tAInted too, and isn’t as good of a kernel, so if I’m gonna clean up a kernel, it’ll be Linux. Otherwise, it’s gonna likely gonna be NetBSD.

          So… not really a Linux distro, I’d say, but definitely a Unix-like OS.

          As for software from other operating systems, it depends on the kernel I choose. If it’s a Linux fork, I’ll be super careful to keep it compatible with the Linux ABI. If it’s NetBSD, there’s compat_linux for Linux binaries. I believe Wine has taken an anti-“AI” stance, so Windows should be alright—if not: old versions exist.

          As for your last question: I’m a transfemme (our main difference), (anarcho, probably)-communist, bi/pan, polyamorous, anti-“AI” programmer (who is very open to DMs (I’m lonely af)) :3

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    AI is shit. AI is decent.? When… People will argue.

    Let’s be honest and speak about it. IF and “AI” analyses and soley discusses what’s going on on your machine with no outbound channels while recommending when a appointment is in your calendar, how much of a check you should pay, or why your invite to the pool on Sunday interferes with your date night… The AI is “bad” for using resources. Way worse if it consults resources… it won’t for those tasks though. It will for image generation. (Should likely never happen). So honestly, if you were to say what you hate about it outside of public opinion, what is it? The theft of ideas? Makes sense. The theft of property 100%. Now that it’s done… what does a person do?

    • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      IF and “AI” analyses and soley discusses what’s going on on your machine with no outbound channels while recommending when a appointment is in your calendar, how much of a check you should pay, or why your invite to the pool on Sunday interferes with your date night

      Do you even adult dude?

    • BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan@piefed.socialEnglish
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      3 days ago

      The worst part about this comment is that it says “edited” in the top. So this guy wrote the comment, posted it, read it back, realized that he needs to fix it, edited it, presumably looked it again and decided “yup, that’s what I want to say” and sent it.

  • partzel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The way the commercialization of LLMs just ruined the word AI, word processors have been using AI in other ways for ages

    • NotAnOtter@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      2 days ago

      It’s among the more annoying parts of the whole AI thing, amid an ocean of things too-concerning-to-be-annoying.

      “AI” / llm’s, are not artificial intelligence in the way laypeople mean it, and in the sense that LLM’s are AI - we’ve had AI for decades. Occasionally I’ll be socializing with someone I consider very intellgenet (e.x. recently, a chemical engineer) who was telling me how they just learned AI’s ‘just predict the next word’, and it just bugs me so so much how little people understand these things.

      Like, they are ruining our world. Climate, commerce, security - everything is going to get a LOT shittier. And you don’t understand at a basic level how it works. It’s just sad.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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      3 days ago

      People don’t realise that there’s more to AI than LLMs and chat bots, and that plenty of software has been using AI (machine learning, neutral networks, forecast modeling, etc) for at least a decade or two.

      • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        That’s a technicality. The term AI do encompass a TON of things, but it is as irrelevant as saying “crypto” isn’t just the scam machine we know. For most people, it is. And for most people, AI is “Gemini/Claude/ChatGPT”. And telling them the difference isn’t gonna matter at all.

        I wonder if some people compiled a list of terms that got so removed from their actual meaning because of advertisement/commercial use. Like, “wifi” is synonymous to “wireless internet access” to so many people, and yet it’s actually not.

      • Gyrcas@piefed.zipEnglish
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        2 days ago

        But this is a bit pedantic, people refer to GenAI when they say AI, you can blame corporations for using it as a magic word for investors