False. There are a number of models trained on data they were explicitly given permission to train on.

So far from what I’ve seen when I investigated self-labeled ethical models, I found that they weren’t actually trained ethically, and not on code that is compatible with GPL or code that doesn’t need to be attributed. (if you can find one that has proven otherwise, I’d be open to taking a look at it).

That said, I don’t think there would have been as much push back if the KDE proposal had explicitly limited AI use to self-hosted models.

There’s no reasonable way they can actually ban this. And they don’t have the time or money to police it.

According to the KDE devs, the proposal was intended to allow them to easily reject clearly slop PRs. A policy that limits AI use to self-hosted models would have achieved that goal just as well as one that allows any model, and would essentially be an honor system, which I suspect most contributors would be willing to follow (obviously not all, and there is nothing stopping a contributor from lying that their corporate AI code was generated on a local LLM, but then again, there are also rules asking contributors to not knowingly submit copyrighted code from proprietary software, which is also an honor system).

You are simply misattributing them to artificial intelligence and not wealthy authoritarians seeking to profit. By all means, fuck zuck, musk, altman, etc and their companies. They’ve always been and always will be destructive in every way possible. AI or not.

To be honest, I’m struggling to understand why you would be against a policy that at least attempts to limit the benefit/gain to those wealthy authoritarians. A policy that did so would not require any further resources from the dev team compared to the one they attempted to implement, it would basically just be an official request to contributors to not use the explicitly fascist owned tools that are most contributing to global warming and our subjugation.