Both Ubuntu and Fedora have made it official: support is coming soon for running local generative AI instances.
An epic and still-growing thread in the Fedora forums states one of the goals for the next version: the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective. It is causing some discontent, and at least one Fedora contributor, SUSE’s Fernando Mancera, has resigned.



Oh, I like this game.
You’re right, if you take something actually happening in reality and append a scary fabricated scenario then it sound scary.
What an interesting new discovery, I hope nobody tries to apply this in reality. Completely unrelated, Have you considered a career in politics?
I apologize to the community for lacking the paranoid delusions required to see how a project staffed by volunteers who are creating a system image which users have to choose to install was actually part of a plot by the Illuminati to force people to sell their soul to the Antichrist.
As a unwitting tool of The Man, I throw myself at the mercy of the community’s judgement. Please scourge me most thoroughly so that I may repent from my evil ways of observing reality as it appears.