GNU Hates AI(LLM) And So Do I
Distro Lackey <[email protected]>
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WARNING: Requires bona fide literacy. The GNU Guix distro has published its condemnation of AI(LLM), which should better be known as "stochastic text generators" because there is no intelligence involved anywhere. The title is “Standing up for human crafting” and the link is: <https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/pulls/13> In case the link doesn't work, here is what I consider to be a major point: - The narrative around the output of genAI tends to demean human creativity, to [discourage the learning and knowledge sharing processes](https://cekrem.github.io/posts/programming-as-theory-building-part-ii) at the core of free software, and to [discourage free software contributions by humans](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.15494). We believe it [stifles individual autonomy](https://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/defining-ai) at a fundamental level—replacing one’s ability to build up knowledge with a false sense of quick achievement, building up [cognitive debt](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/)—while also [weakening communities and destroying labor power](https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/). Indeed. Stochastic Text Generators are embraced only by namby-pamby functional illiterates who totally lack any form of creative potential. They are the ghost writers (or ghost programmers) in a box to provide their pathetic users with a semblance of actual accomplishment. I say "piss on" all Stochastic Text Generators and all those who support them.