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About Alpaca
Whilst Alpaca is open source and is open to code contributions, it's pretty much a one-man show as far as code development goes.
To introduce my self, my name is Jeffry Samuel Eduarte Rojas, I'm a computer science student and a fanatic of computers and Linux. Alpaca is my first big project and it makes me really happy to be able to contribute something back to the community.
Big thanks to the awesome Tobias Bernard for the redesign of the Alpaca logo!
I've said it like a thousand times by now but I'm really grateful for everyone that has ever translated Alpaca to their original languages, I'm truly honored to have received your help along Alpaca's development.
| Language | Contributors |
|---|---|
| 🇷🇺 Russian | Alex K |
| 🇪🇸 Spanish | Jeffry Samuel |
| 🇫🇷 French | Louis Chauvet-Villaret , Théo FORTIN |
| 🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese | Daimar Stein , Bruno Antunes |
| 🇳🇴 Norwegian | CounterFlow64 |
| 🇮🇳 Bengali | Aritra Saha |
| 🇨🇳 Simplified Chinese | Yuehao Sui , Aleksana |
| 🇮🇳 Hindi | Aritra Saha |
| 🇹🇷 Turkish | YusaBecerikli |
| 🇺🇦 Ukrainian | Simon |
| 🇩🇪 German | Marcel Margenberg |
| 🇮🇱 Hebrew | Yosef Or Boczko |
| 🇮🇳 Telugu | Aryan Karamtoth |
| 🇮🇹 Italian | Edoardo Brogiolo |
In case you were wondering, the list of translators goes from the first translation to the latest.
I was watching Google I/O 2024 (Yes the one where they said 'AI' like a thousand times) and it occurred to me that the Linux desktop needed a simple privacy respecting AI helper, I stumbled upon Ollama and then I started tinkering with GTK4 and Adwaita.
Anyways, one thing let to another and my simple project for testing Ollama and learning GTK4 transformed into 60k downloads in Flathub.
In a more serious note, AI is a scary concept, both in how it's trained and how the big companies will use conversations to spy on users, I want to make something that gives the user the opportunity to choose different models, some with data collected ethically and other's that have "unknown data sources", and of course I want to make something that doesn't collect any data and is completely open source, AI is here to stay so at the very least I can provide an easy way to access it locally with a nice interface.
Important
To be clear, I have nothing against the individual people using this technology, just the concept itself.
So the guy that's making an AI tool for generating text draws the line at image generation? Wouldn't that make him a hypocrite?
Yeah lol.
Image generation just feels wrong to me, seeing Google Images filled to the brim with awful AI generated slop when I'm searching for art references, wallpapers and photographs drives me crazy, I'm really appreciative of the visual arts and seeing drawings and photographs being used with no permission to generate that slop makes me mad.
But I'm a developer, shouldn't code generation make me even more angry? Nah, AI is good at fixing code and making small stuff, but I can't just ask ChatGPT to make Alpaca and expect it to actually give me a nice interface that works (most of the time anyways).
AI is not replacing a good developer any time soon, but it might replace an artist and I won't support that.
Support a local artist if you have the means.
Now, if AI ever gets regulated and more morally correct I might reconsider my position, but let's be real here, it won't.