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What does ChatGPT mean for the open source community

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 18, 2023

Community is about people. Making connections with other people with a shared interest and passion for something is what makes communities so fulfilling. Both the disagreements and the moments of shared inspiration are profound experiences that we humans bring to one another in our forums, chat rooms, bug reports, conferences, and neighborhoods. As an open source community, we create technology. We create it openly, together, and with a genuine interest in sharing experiential knowledge. We value diversity, and we find value in the perspectives of novices and experts alike. These are things you can't distill in machine learning chat bot, whether it's open source or not (and ChatGPT is not).

The open source community thrives on the genuine interest in sharing. That's something ChatGPT cannot emulate.

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