One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite used by tens of millions of people – in schools, hospitals, public bodies, law firms and thousands of other organisations – will not add a feature to its default configuration until that feature can be delivered under the conditions defined by the project in accordance with its principles. User-controlled execution. The user must be able to choose where inference takes place: on the local computer, on an infrastructure directly controlled by the user, or on a service chosen independently by the user. A default setting that silently redirects to a single provider is not a choice. No content may leave the computer without authorisation. The content of documents is a user’s asset and, in many implementations, is also legally protected material: medical records, case files, tender documents and student data. Transmission must be the result of a user’s decision and not behaviour carried out in the background by the application. No telemetry of any kind. LibreOffice does not collect usage data, and this must also apply
  • Gyrcas@piefed.zipEnglish
    91·
    2 hours ago

    It should also be a feature to have no AI used in the production. No AI assets, no AI concept art, no AI code, I don’t want any of that slop touching my software

  • partzel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    541·
    8 hours ago

    The way the commercialization of LLMs just ruined the word AI, word processors have been using AI in other ways for ages

    • danAEnglish
      392·
      6 hours ago

      People don’t realise that there’s more to AI than LLMs and chat bots, and that plenty of software has been using AI (machine learning, neutral networks, forecast modeling, etc) for at least a decade or two.

      • Gyrcas@piefed.zipEnglish
        4·
        2 hours ago

        But this is a bit pedantic, people refer to GenAI when they say AI, you can blame corporations for using it as a magic word for investors

      • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
        11·
        4 hours ago

        Because back then it isn’t a keyword smack across industry, not intrusive, without threatening every employees that they might left out, and no chip shortage. It’s a branding, you can’t blame people for not knowing.

      • BlindPenguin@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Maybe, but i guess that has also to do with the fact, that a lot of companies don’t seem to have any idea what the legitimate use case could be, so they throw it everywhere and see where it sticks. Which kinda reminds me of the company i’ve worked for several years ago, which was basically just “let’s throw GPS data onto a map and see what happens” for 20 years, and was struggling when logistics companies wanted a bit more than just a damn map. They had to rework the entire interface.

        Only a matter of time until all the “chatbox with addons” providers go down the drain…

  • Tja@programming.devEnglish
    22·
    3 hours ago

    I don’t know, Integration with a local instance of ollama from an open source text editor it would be perfectly fine for me. I write enough that a grammar-aware typo correction would be awesome. At work I find Gmails AI suggestions quite useful, especially when writing in languages where i am not fluent. That buy open source and self hosted? Yes, please.

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      55 minutes ago

      Oh thank goodness! I can’t use Microsoft Office because of my gluten allergy…

      And Open Office is just so high in sodium…

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    8 hours ago

    AI is shit. AI is decent.? When… People will argue.

    Let’s be honest and speak about it. IF and “AI” analyses and soley discusses what’s going on on your machine with no outbound channels while recommending when a appointment is in your calendar, how much of a check you should pay, or why your invite to the pool on Sunday interferes with your date night… The AI is “bad” for using resources. Way worse if it consults resources… it won’t for those tasks though. It will for image generation. (Should likely never happen). So honestly, if you were to say what you hate about it outside of public opinion, what is it? The theft of ideas? Makes sense. The theft of property 100%. Now that it’s done… what does a person do?

    • BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan@piefed.socialEnglish
      16·
      5 hours ago

      The worst part about this comment is that it says “edited” in the top. So this guy wrote the comment, posted it, read it back, realized that he needs to fix it, edited it, presumably looked it again and decided “yup, that’s what I want to say” and sent it.

      • SourDragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        “I said a whole lot of nonsense. Whoops! Looks like a coherent thought snuck in there. Better edit that out.”

            • BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              4 hours ago

              Yeah I get that. I have quite dead pan delivery and “blunt” humor IRL, that doesn’t translate very well over text, I really should be more mindful about that. Wouldn’t be the first, second or a hundredth time that someone mistook my stupid joke comments as a “fuck you”.

              Just yesterday a guy on IRC, who I’ve talked to for months said “I never know if you are joking or pissed off” lol.

    • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      IF and “AI” analyses and soley discusses what’s going on on your machine with no outbound channels while recommending when a appointment is in your calendar, how much of a check you should pay, or why your invite to the pool on Sunday interferes with your date night

      Do you even adult dude?