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I mean, I don’t think we should throw the baby out with the bath-sewage.
I do really want a file system that allows semantic search via embeddings. That would give good natural language retrieval or even person based search on your photos.
You can run those entirely locally. You can train them reasonably, though the AI labs have good quality ones. They’re available for free, and I can commute thousands per second on a modest GPU.
Why not have a filesystem integration for them, with pluggable model support. You can do that with lancedb or chromadb, or pgvector, or you could build this into a SQLite plugin.
Also, making hooks into software that agents can use if needed, also enables accessibility software to use them. I’ve been using AppleScript for like 20 years to automate shit, it’s nice that now I can plug agents into it, and all sorts of macOS features are built on the same bridges.
There’s no need to default to plugging into the US based providers who (by US law) don’t respect privacy.
Exactly, the whole point of the project was to create a new system image, not to modify the existing system images.
Nobody would see this except the people who wanted it.
The way the articles and the social media discourse was framing it made it sound like Fedora was pushing this out to everyone, that isn't remotely the case.
I think the capitalist frenzy around AI is destructive too, but I also understand that the technology is much larger than a few US tech companies who have too much money to burn.
Machine learning and the related applications are not going anywhere and if there are not open source tools available then people have no way to access that technology without going through some tech company who's wrecking havoc on the world.
From scrolling through the proposal comments it sounds like the proposals focus on NVidia/CUDA is the main thing to cause the angry comments when there are open source options to choose instead. That and the plagiarism from the AI models.