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FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
(thelibre.news)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The theory that the lead maintainer had (he is an actual software developer, I just dabble), is that it might be a type of reinforcement learning:
If this is what's happening, then it's essentially offloading your LLM's reinforcement learning scoring to open source maintainers.
Thats wild. I don't have much hope for llm's if things like this is how they are doing things and I would not be surprised given how well they don't work. Too much quantity over quality in training.