Over the past couple weeks, there’s been a lot of discussion around Lutris and its developer, Mathieu Comandon, following comments about using AI tools (specifically Claude) as part of the project’s development.
It’s the kind of topic that can very quickly spiral into wider debates about open
I love Lutris, but man he really screwed himself with his immature approach to this.
So he knew it would cause a fuss when it came to light he was using AI, so what does he do?
Rather than be fully transparent upfront he hides it. And his response when called out on it was doubly childish.
His justifications for the use of it are irrelevant.
And his reasoning for why he thinks people are upset at his use of AI shows he doesn’t understand the issue.
Ignoring the many issues with AI that do invalidate it one of which is its inherently anti-FOSS which I guess he doesn’t seem to mind except under the terms that he might be sued for copying someone’s code.
Lmao. Sure.
In is original comments on Github he shifts the blame to overall capitalism but doesn’t see how continuing to pay into AI and further normalize its use as problematic.
So he doesn’t seem to get it I guess.
The rest of the interview is mostly just pro-AI.
My dream is that we get some court to rule that code created by AI is specifically created by a machine, not the prompter, so it’s in the public domain. I seriously doubt we’ll see that, but I can hope.
(This is not a rebuttal, just discussion. I am not saying people should be pro-AI.)