Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-puts-foot-down-on-anti-ai-comments/

[mpwg@fedi.at]

@gamingonlinux Ai is a tool. It all depends on how it’s used.

[justinderrick@mstdn.ca]

@gamingonlinux This sounds like a defensible position until someone sues the team for copyright infringement because something they wrote got barfed out of an LLM prompt and merged into the Linux kernel.

If this sounds ridiculous, consider that the SCO lawsuit is in the process of being revived and relitigated… again.

Even if it isn’t successful, it’s a costly distraction (both in money and attention) from “the tech” that Linus is concerned about.

[jakubzet@mastodon.social]

@gamingonlinux Really sad to read this... At least it looks like Linus and NVIDIA may love each other again now...

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@gamingonlinux

[gryphonmyers@mastodon.social]

@ozzelot @gamingonlinux I think this is actually a new level of shitty from Linus. He was kind of trying to come across as a centrist before but now he's making it very clear he is a booster.

[elvisish@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Enthalpiste @gamingonlinux Tim Sweeney does this too, he hasn’t coded in years after delegating all his coding responsibilities, now talks endlessly about how “useful” AI is

[elvisish@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mpwg @gamingonlinux bot

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@gryphonmyers @gamingonlinux i've long perceived centrism as just helping the greater evil in perhaps a slower way (not just in ai)

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@gamingonlinux

Fine. I'll come out and just say it.

Linus Torvalds was once a fantastic programmer, but he has always been a fucking asshole.

The only difference now is that he is a fucking STUPID asshole.

[witchgirls@woof.tech]

@chronohart Linux has fallen to slop ages ago. There's really not a lot you can do. Most BSDs (and the only usable one for desktop is FreeBSD as far as I know anyways) I'm pretty sure have an open LLM policy.

As someone who struggled with this too, don't worry too much about things you can't control. Scrap the things you can scrap, and the things you can't scrap, be vocal about them and try to not give them any money. That's about all we can do.

[raster@retro-gaiden.com]

@gamingonlinux If AIs are ready, maybe he should specify which, because Gemini and ChatGPT are still hallucinating badly also with some basic searches that they hinders you more than the help.

It's one of those times when I think FreeBSD has better judgment in some choices, despite the OS lags behind in some areas for lack of devs.
They are looking how use AI, yes, but they are taking more time about evaluating where they works for and what avoid about, and are a lot more conservative.

[davidnielsen@mastodon.social]

@gamingonlinux @marcoarment Linus once again on the wrong side of history, sky blue, water wet, news at 11.

[gekitsu@toot.cat]

@gamingonlinux

The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the point of the project.

and this right here is why ‘open source’ has always been the bullshit version of ‘free software’.

[mpwg@fedi.at]

@elvisish who?

[sharpcheddargoblin@reclusive.blog]

@gamingonlinux Fuck you, Linus.

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@gamingonlinux
> And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time.

/me guzzling LNG like nobody's business, farting toxic fumes, and generating 60 dB of infrasounds: huh?

[falsfiction@gamedev.lgbt]

@gamingonlinux

"I realize that some people really dislike Russia, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.

"Linux is not one of those anti-Russian projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.{...}

"Russia has maintainers, just like other countries do. And they're clearly useful."

Ooh, wait, those aren't the same. It's as if Torvalds hasn't noticed "AI" is a weaponized disaster.

[tuzu@social.linux.pizza]

@mehdi_benadel @gamingonlinux I'd disagree with you on the opensource part. I feel like opensource is much more about making better software than about some ideals. I think free software is much more about these ideas than opensource is and I would even say that's the main difference between those two.

[nowicki@mastodon.social]

@TeflonTrout @gamingonlinux Help me understand this, if you can point AI at the Linux kernel and it can find zero days that humans can't, we are supposed to not do that?

[migratory@jorts.horse]

@gekitsu @gamingonlinux wow I wonder where technologies come from