Post by @paul

@davidgerard what always bugged me about llms in FOSS is how reliant it makes you on big software-service companies, which i thought was exactly the thing free software as a movement wanted to avoid in the first place. i have my qualms with the FOSS movement but it really feels like they're blatantly not even bothering to stick by their own principles anymore

@typhlosion @davidgerard

I wonder -- did LLMs just happen to hit at a time when maybe the second generation of Open Source authors were starting to run out of motivation?

Writing open source software was always a thankless job, but over the last decade or so, it maybe feels like the open-source _movement_ has lost a lot of the excitement and counter-culture energy that it used to have. What's the last open-source project that made waves and made people excited?

@skjeggtroll @typhlosion i concur, open source fully corporatising certainly feels like it would only have helped the chatbot decay