The Tragedy of Software Developers Making Up Narratives and Making Excuses for Plagiarism (of Their Own Work, Too)
LLMs are not "intelligence", so referring to them as such is intentional propaganda or reliance on bribed media parroting this propaganda (to train people to say the same, to gradually adopt this misnomer). It's literally paid to do this (example from today). When Google uses the word "thinking" (while it prompts an LLM instead of presenting search results) it is also lying to people. There's no thinking going on at all. None at all!
So what compels good people - some of whom Debian Developers who wrote or maintain decent software - to call LLM slop "AI"?
An ideal starting point is to quit calling this stuff "AI" and call it what it really is. Anything else biases debates.
Normalising plagiarism when you get a salary from a company that profits from it makes "business sense". But Debian needs more disclosures. As we noted earlier this month, one lingering issue is that many who vote in Debian GRs receive money from slop companies. █