Entire article fails to mention GNU or Debian, two exremely prominent projects started in the 1980s and 1990s respectively. The term "Free Software" comes from GNU. The "Debian Free Software Guidelines" is an early document by that project that helped guide GNU's later "Free Software Definition." The point of "Free Software" was public, collective ownership of software infrastructure, managed by a non-profit organization which anyone could join or to which anyone can contribute. It didn't work out exactly that way because Rock Star, but oh well: others have done well to route around the ego and GNU is still a going concern.
My point is that "Free Software" is an implementation of anarchism in software production, and "Open Source" is the corporate co-optation of same.
"LLMs are not AI" because LLMs are a real thing that exists and AI is an empty marketing term from the 1950s that means nothing sufficiently definable to be implemented in software. It just means "like a human would do" or some similar squishy shit. The "common usage" argument fails because the term was in common use to mean different things for many decades before some companies decided it meant their LLM products and did a multimegamoney advertising psyop to convince all the credulous dolts (but not _only_ credulous dolts) that This Is It Forever... when the money dries up and the hawkers move on, people will go back to calling videogame character patterns "AI".
governments will continue to murder and imprison people, since that is what they do.
anarchists should use tools of anarchism:
ad-hoc organizing, consensus decides, low friction entry/exit, trust management, anonymity culture, but mostly love
on internet this means decentralized, "Free Software" tools that need no central server and communicate in ways that are difficult to intercept. There are a great many of these, nerds i love have been working on them for decades. They are hard to use because the users have all had similar backgrounds except the ones who bounced off the project before giving feedback. Projects which have overcome this problem are widely-used and easy.
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