Disappointed in the Debian result.
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The software is not the thing. Code is the implementation language of a shared understanding. The shared understanding, between people with wants and needs living in the world, is the thing.
What is the point of a freely accessible knowledge commons where you can never be sure the knowledge is trustworthy or even real, where you can't drink the water or breathe the air.
I don't know how to interpret the Debian Social Contract in a way that makes relentless global-scale information harvesting and stochastic regurgitation by for-profit companies acceptable.
LLM vendors are privatizing access to knowledge taken from the commons; selling access is not giving back. They hide an enormous number of massive ecological, financial, legal and ethical problems, their priorities are not users or free software, and their outputs do not meet free software standards.
![Chris [list of emoji]](https://nfts.freeradical.zone/accounts/avatars/109/127/168/397/951/576/original/e8a0b6da977923a8.jpeg "Chris [list of emoji]")
At this point, I can only hope that the bubble pops before too much damage is done.
