" We been brainstorming various ideas in the team for how we can make use of AI to provide improved or new features to users of GNOME and Fedora Workstation."
I’m not crazy about the idea of anyone’s AI embedded in my DE or OS. Thoughts? Would the OM devs remove the AI from GNOME?
I would hope they would remove it. If it was possible.
An AI in an operating system should be the users choice and it should be local to the device. No call backs to some faceless central control data center doing whatever they want to do with your data.
This whole “AI” craze has been nothing more than a glorified data vaccum.
As long as the code is open-source, I can see this as a good idea. I often use local large language models with an open source program based on llamacpp (there are many different ones, but I don’t use Ollama). There’s a huge variety of models available on Hugging Face, even tiny ones that can run on CPUs, so there’s no need for an LLM in the cloud, which would naturally be used for data collection of various kinds.
There was a project which sought to emulate Microsoft’s Windows Recall as an open-source project. I found the idea interesting, but there’s been no commits to Openrecall for at least 5 months. I assume it’s abandoned. There is Screenpipe, which I just found out about. As far as I’m concerned, as long as the project is fully open-source and uses local models, it could prove to be a useful tool for those who need it.
I am also concerned about the future of hardware with built in NPUs that cannot be removed and how that will generally effect the Linux and various BSD world.