Just seeing the list here: https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
I don’t know what to think about it, many incredible open-source projects went downhill, some worse than others, full AI permission usage and some of them even advertise AI providers on README.md. I’m even using many of them myself.
Even the good guys are falling, I’m not sure what to think about it. Am I overreacting maybe?
You might think, that’s fine, not a big deal, some of them just allow AI usage, but not AI generated code, but for how long? If you allow use of AI for anything the tendency is that you’ll be even more open about it in the future.
List of projects that personally draw my attention or I use eventually:
- Firefox: not unexpected, but still, I had hope on Mozilla bring more tech awareness on mainstream
- Spaceship prompt: I use this on my terminal for customization, why’d you need AI for such a simple project?
- VLC: just sad
- curl: sad x 10
- Vim: sad x 20
- zoxide: they literally promoting AI providers in the README, such a simple tool as well, why?
- CoMaps/Organic Maps/OsmAnd: the few ones providing a good alternative to Google Maps
- Element: that’s literally the most used client for Matrix I guess?
- Python: I thought they were the good guys as well
- Lemmy: unexpected, code of conduct says it’s allowed
- Linux: the final boss, unbelievable
Is there any hope at all? Or am I just overreacting?
VLC providing real-time subtitles seems like a cool feature, no? A reasonable use of AI? Or are they doing other worse/bad things with AI?
I don’t quite understand the outrage about this feature because it seems like a reasonable use case.
On the other hand, I haven’t tried it yet but it don’t expect much from this feature after having played around with whisper model some time age and finding out it recognizes German way worse than me, while it’s only my third language.
I’ve watched a few series with AI generated subtitles once and it’s real dog shit. They miss some obvious words that completely breaks the immersion of what I’m watching.
On top of that, they’re selling this feature as something good, instead of incentivating real subtitle writers that do a pretty solid work.
You’ll see more AI slop and less good work from real people.
It’s not VLC role to give a job to subtitle writers. Their role is to let you play any piece of media. AI subs are supposed to fill the gap when there are no quality subs available or no subs at all. As a feature it makes complete sense for a media player. No company will stop hiring sub writers because of this feature in VLC. And in the really rare cases it would happen I guess thiese companies already don’t care about providing quality subs.
Ah, dang, that doesn’t sound good. And good point about subtitle writers.
Anything to put people out of business, right?