@cwebber I feel the same way about all this, and I am not sure how to even process it tbh.

All of these projects allowing/adopting slop kinda feels like being cheated on, like you trusted them and they stabbed you in the back.

@cwebber the last couple of years have really demonstrated how weak many institutions are

it's exhausting and disappointing

@cwebber

AI's ability to subvert security measures should alarm everyone.
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface

https://joshuagans.substack.com/p/its-worse

AI has so many shills paid to naysay opposition
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/dwarkesh-patelss-wildly-popular-but

@cwebber I wouldn't support you in this case, afterall in my coding I started realising and utilising more and more except conditions thanks to AI suggestions.
But ofcourse, leaving coding completely to AI is foolishness.
We need to limit how much percentage ai can influence the code, but not outright shuting off the door.

@cwebber You say organizations have been failing us, but in cases where those organizations are democratic, isn't it really our peers who have been failing us? "You were supposed to destroy them, not join them!"?

@cwebber I'll admit to still processing my feelings, although trending towards having high concerns about AI. The Honda Pilot that I drive has LKAS (Lane Keep Assist). Although I don't know all the details of this software and hardware I suspect it is based on AI-like technology. A neural net trained to spot lane markers in real time and keep the car in the center. If someone were to create a free software version of this system using an AI-like design, should we be concerned? If so, why?

@cwebber I totally understand how you feel, and agree that this stuff is toxic.

If it helps, what I will say it’s *never* too late to start taking a principled stand. I know sometimes it feels like we’ve missed a storybook moment to do so, but I believe that you make your own moment whenever you start.

Thats what I believe, anyway.

@cwebber same

@cwebber FOSS lost a chance to be part of the anti-datacenter movement.

@cwebber Ever since I blocked the user Claude on Github, I've had this warning shown on an ever growing list of repositories and it's so fucking sad 😣

@cwebber the authorities are dead long live the authorities

@cwebber I'm at the point where I'm about ready to discard the idea of FOSS as it was originally created (with the libertarian overtones of "anyone at all can use this"), and move to something that's either explicitly non-commercial at all, or (my preferred version) licensed for use by for-profit companies up to a limited size -- whether that's by employee count or revenue.

FOSS has undergone a hostile takeover, and won't ever be thought of in the same way again. Time for a different approach.

@cwebber

only some of us are in Free software for idealistic reasons.

I don't think you can put all else aside, but even just focusing on the maintainability of code itself...

Using these tools to uncover bugs, sure. Using them to generate code that nobody in your community fully understands... well...

And I know, you say, you'll be responsible about it.

But you won't be able to keep up, justifying keeping up with that level of review won't happen. So you'll slip. And you'll eventually embrace not knowing. And so is everyone else around you.

And so, decades of work are knotting up and the foundations are ensaring beneath our feet.

And we could have, collectively, organizationally, taken a stand, and we didn't.

@cwebber

FOSS institutions were no more resistant to techno-fascism than any other institutions