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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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Quoting: minidouridiculous, but not surprisingI must say that your pseudo doesn't really fit you, if I think of what dou/doux means in French (soft, sweet...). 😀
there's no stopping the moral panic against AI it seems
Caldathras 3 hours ago
Quoting: ArtenNo, but a "grammar checker" can.Quoting: CaldathrasThe misnomer "AI" is just a marketing label used to inaccurately promote LLM. In my opinion, when the backlash began against LLMs and their objectionable social, legal, economical and environmental impacts, it was convenient for the spin doctors to confuse the issue by throwing translation, grammar checking, spell checking and other older technologies that pre-date LLMs under the same label. How could we object to these uses of "AI"? We don't. We object to LLMs and how they are being promoted and presently utilized. Personally, I also object to the label "AI" because LLMs are any but intelligent.Spell checking alone isn’t enough. As a Czech speaker, I find that having an LLM correct Czech works much better. Czech is a stupidly complicated language with many illogical exceptions, so we at least need the ability to guess the context for a correct correction. Spell‑checkers were terrible before LLMs.
My two cents.
Thanks, Liam, for your determined stance.
The same goes for English when you can’t formulate a sentence correctly. My English is terrible, so using an LLM to correct it is very useful. Can a spell checker do that for me?
I know I'm just getting technical on you but a "spell checker" is not the tool you are using. What you are using is a "translator". This would be a much more complex tool that utilizes "grammar checking" for both Czech and English. Spelling would be a minor component by comparison. I doubt there would be much need for an LLM in a spell checker.
Word processors, in my experience, had also been doing a pretty good job with grammar checking (with English) before the advent of LLMs. I can't speak to translation, as I've rarely had the need in the past. I haven't really looked into it, so I don't know how much of an impact LLMs have had on grammar checkers and translators.
Whatever tool you are using as a translator is doing a brilliant job.
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Quoting: ArtenFrom my point of view, there are three stances toward AI. Two of them are unhelpful. One is reasonable.This seems like a reasonable perspective, but there are several problems and caveats to it.
- 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.
So, before the real problems, the main caveat: Large language model AI is so incredibly intensive in its use of computing power that it costs real serious money to use. So for instance, using generative AI just for spelling/grammar checking is incredibly wasteful; we had spelling/grammar checking before that wasn't "AI" and that just worked on your computer without requiring a subscription to anything. Currently a good deal of the real cost is hidden because most AI companies are providing their services at a serious loss, in hopes of, um . . . well, that gets complicated and sordid, but they are doing that. But my point is, a lot and perhaps most uses that seem like reasonable uses for LLM "AI" as a tool, are not worth the money those uses would actually cost unsubsidized, and subsidized use is unsustainable in the medium term . . . fairly short term at this point. Getting used to cheap AI being available as a tool is a mistake, because it will either become unavailable or become not cheap.
The real problems: There are a lot of implications to AI use which go beyond their momentary utility to the user. Yes, they're indirect and longer term so lots of people don't want to be bothered thinking about them. That doesn't make them not real. And those impacts are mostly negative, particularly given who owns AI and what their motivations are, and they are probably much larger to any given individual than the positive impacts of using the marginally useful tool. So viewing AI use solely through the lens of "Is it useful to me right now?" is a good way for us all to collectively screw ourselves in a few years.
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