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PayPalGenerative AI seems like it's everywhere now right? So here's a letter from the owner (me, hi!) formally setting out the GamingOnLinux stance on it.
Let's make it completely clear - there is no generative AI used for GamingOnLinux news and guides. There never will be generative AI used for them. Our About Us page has a clear note too: "All content is human-created. We have a strict no AI generation policy here".
We've seen other websites get sold off, editors fired and even replaced with fake AI generated bots that post content. We will never be doing anything like that. I would rather throw the GamingOnLinux name and web server into the sun than ever let GamingOnLinux become something like that.
I'm certainly not perfect. I mess up from time to time but I use those times to learn and improve. I am human, totally fallible. As are the contributors that jump in with an article here and there and help out with moderation. And to the users logged in who send in correction reports to fix my incorrect wording, and sometimes rather funky grammar - you're awesome too. You know who you are. I appreciate you a lot.
I want to continue to see a world full of human creation, to have chatter between humans, and not fill the internet with soulless bot-created works made for faster and easier profit. The community we've built up together over the nearly 17 years of operation is important to me. So I hope my stance on generative AI is understandable.
It's a truly challenging time. Not just for a smaller site like this but for everyone. Search engine AI overviews have definitely affected us, as have all the AI tools that just repeat content scraped from GamingOnLinux without people ever visiting us. Many of the bigger players are now owned by the same companies, and have seen repeated layoffs due to how tough it is to keep going.
We may not have the most in-depth articles, as there's better places with funding enough for multiple amazing editors doing some deep stuff you can find. The point of GamingOnLinux has always remained the same. Not to spam you with 100 different pieces a day like some content farm but just to curate and highlight cool games, along with various bits of news I find interesting directly in the Linux sphere.
GamingOnLinux will stick around as long as humanly possible.
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RevenantDak a day ago
Quoting: minidouridiculous, but not surprising😐. there are plenty of LLM generated Linux and gaming sites, what's wrong with one that chooses not to use it? how is that "moral panic"? no one is stopping you or anyone from using it. liam is free not to use it, and we're free to be critical about it. lol.
there's no stopping the moral panic against AI it seems
And is one of main reasons I took an interest in Linux in the first place. As I've grown tired of Microsoft's mishandling of Windows. Ironically one of which is AI and constant broken updates and bad GPU drivers that both Nvidia and AMD release along side the broken Windows updates.
So keep up the good work Liam, and bring more people onto Linux👍
Arehandoro a day ago
Quoting: luapI think I am human.)This me made laugh. Thanks 😊
Quoting: minidouridiculous, but not surprisingInteresting take, I'd not have put the backlash against AI/LLMs into that category. There can be backlash against a thing without it being a moral panic. I think that the backlash is against how it was sold and what the reality of it is and how it is being abused pretty mindlessly (almost as if an LLM is the one doing the abusing of the usage of itself).
there's no stopping the moral panic against AI it seems
- AI is evil and must be avoided in all cases. This is a bad stance.
- AI is just a tool, and when used responsibly it is reasonable to employ it. I don’t think generating an entire article with AI is a good idea, but using it for spell‑checking? If it can catch incorrect wording, that’s a worthwhile use.
- Throw AI at anything. This is also a bad stance.
Quoting: kmturleyIt's sad to say this, but you will need a 100% human badge for the site.The idea is so good that I was sure somebody has made them already.
Here you go: https://www.aimeecozza.com/human-made/
Quoting: ArtenThis is the correct take, as long as "responsibly" and "reasonable" are well defined, and cover issues beyond immediate utility, including legal, societal and environmental ramifications. Not just whether you get useful results out of it.
- AI is just a tool, and when used responsibly it is reasonable to employ it. I don’t think generating an entire article with AI is a good idea, but using it for spell‑checking? If it can catch incorrect wording, that’s a worthwhile use.
The only way I've used LLMs professionally is to help with the translation of documents I've written, and that's only due to time pressure. It helped less than you might think, seeing as we're talking about compliance and policy documents, which means the language needs to be precise and exact. Took a lot of manual comparison and corrections, but it was still a bit quicker than doing it all line by line.
Mostly LLMs have been a huge pain in my backside and a source of tons of extra busywork, being the guy responsible for information security in our organisation. I keep having to preach to everyone from the C-suite down to individual developers that laws do in fact limit what we can do when it comes to LLMs, and risks need to be assessed and results measured just like in everything else we do. We've got EU wide legislation like the EU AI ACT, NIS2 and obviously the GDPR forcing us to be responsible with our customers' data and transparent about our AI use. (And that's a good thing for every single one of us, even if that might mean a few less euros going to the pockets of shareholders.)
And non-professionally, I don't see any use for LLMs. I enjoy being creative, be it photography, coding or doodling something silly with my wife's Cintiq, and all of these would be less fun if the machine did the work for me. Results are less important than the process. Might as well just let an LLM play my games and read my novels for me.
Last edited by tuubi on 15 Mar 2026 at 9:30 am UTC
Arehandoro 9 hours ago
Quoting: tuubiThe only way I've used LLMs professionally is to help with the translation of documents I've written, and that's only due to time pressure. It helped less than you might think, seeing as we're talking about compliance and policy documents, which means the language needs to be precise and exact. Took a lot of manual comparison and corrections, but it was still a bit quicker than doing it all line by line.I think that is the key point. Most people have tight deadlines and end up using it, myself included, even if they hate it and are against it.
In my team, a mix of software engineers, architects, data engineers, etc, we're now expected to use Claude Code, and from creating code and architecture design now the workload has shifted to reviewing PRs... and only last week the company started playing with AI PR reviews too because they became the bottleneck, cause people can't properly review so much slop all the time. The fear is tangible.
And fear is not good for working.
Last edited by Arehandoro on 15 Mar 2026 at 10:34 am UTC
mr-victory 9 hours ago
Quoting: ArehandoroThe fear is tangible.The fear of what? Merging so much code with unknown functionality and/or side effects?
And fear is not good for working.
Arehandoro 9 hours ago
Quoting: mr-victoryThat too, of course, but mainly fear of being let go. If AI writes the code, and AI reviews it... what are we supposed to do?Quoting: ArehandoroThe fear is tangible.The fear of what? Merging so much code with unknown functionality and/or side effects?
And fear is not good for working.
Maybe we should have an AI Tracker list. Up till now, I've just been removing them from my favorites and forgetting about them. Maybe I should have been adding them to my pihole block list.
Caldathras 2 hours ago
My two cents.
Thanks, Liam, for your determined stance.
Last edited by Caldathras on 15 Mar 2026 at 5:53 pm UTC
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