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The question is simple. I wanted to get a general consensus on if people actually audit the code that they use from FOSS or open source software or apps.

Do you blindly trust the FOSS community? I am trying to get a rough idea here. Sometimes audit the code? Only on mission critical apps? Not at all?

Let's hear it!

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aside from the few people on Lemmy who are entirely anti-AI

Those are silly folks lmao

most people just don't want AI jammed willy-nilly into places where it doesn't belong to do things poorly that it's not equipped to do.

Exactly, fuck corporate greed!

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are silly folks lmao

Eh, I kind of get it. OpenAI's malfeasance with regard to energy usage, data theft, and the aforementioned rampant shoe-horning (maybe "misapplication" is a better word) of the technology has sort of poisoned the entire AI well for them, and it doesn't feel (and honestly isn't) necessary enough that it's worth considering ways that it might be done ethically.

I don't agree with them entirely, but I do get where they're coming from. Personally, I think once the hype dies down enough and the corporate money (and VC money) gets out of it, it can finally settle into a more reasonable solid-state and the money can actually go into truly useful implementations of it.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

OpenAI's malfeasance with regard to energy usage, data theft,

I mean that's why I call them silly folks, that's all still attributable to that corporate greed we all hate, but I've also seen them shit on research work and papers just because "AI" Soo yea lol

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I don’t hate AI, I hate how it was created, how it’s foisted on us, the promises it can do things it really can’t, and the corporate governance of it.

But I acknowledge these tools exist, and I do use them because they genuinely help and I can’t undo all the stuff I hate about them.

If I had millions of dollars to spend, sure I would try and improve things, but I don’t.