GrapheneOS is currently defending its use of AI coding tools on Mastodon against complaints by various accounts claiming to be users.

We do not understand where you’re coming from or why you’re so incredibly angry with us. It’s not justified and does not make sense.

  • qyron@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    I am not a coder in any fashion but this is the make or break frontier for development, particularly FOSS and small scale projects.

    AI is evil.

    It is an ecological nightmare, socially and economically distructive, prompted on the theft of the knowledge and work of every creative endeavour any person as ever made and pointed at rendering pointless any future aspiration of individual creation someone may have.

    The association has been made and it is not going away.

    • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      AI in concept is not evil and could be a good thing .

      Unfortunately, its implementation has been at the hands of rapacious, avaricious, and narcissistic über-capitalists, which has inextricably linked AI with the evils you enumerated.

      In a different timeline, AI was developed slowly, using heavily-vetted and legally obtained data, and rolled out in an intelligent and safe way.

      • qyron@sopuli.xyz
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        We are better off leaving the appeal to alternate time lines for another conversation, preferably around science fiction or comics.

        As it exists, as it was created, “AI” is evil. It consumes resources we can’t afford to waste and is currently supercharging our pollution indexes and creating what may be a catastrophic collapse of already very fragile and unbalanced social and economic realities.

        And because we are already into the sunken cost falacy fase, it will never be rewritten or rebuilt. Hopefully, it will collapse in such horrifying way it will create a cautionary tale, but we are not so lucky, so what we are left with is picking up the bits after it.

        This kind of system had to be developed inside laboratories, colleges, universities, research centers, to aid into very niche and specific fields of research, not made to be a mass consumption comodity as it is. But it was, as you very well put it, not done that way.

    • chunes@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      this is such an extremist position, i don’t know how anyone can take it seriously

      • qyron@sopuli.xyz
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        2 days ago

        Pass. Haven’t learn before, not interested in do it now. And if by some reason I wished to do it, I’d grab a few books on it.

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            23 hours ago

            How do you know? Honestly, how can you claim a given author will relay to a meat grinder the effort of compilling a work they will sign and be responsible for?

            One added curiosity from me: at what point has the colective surrender of independent thought and action been signed and by whom?

            And a final question but feel free to skip this: do you rely completely on LLMs to complete your daily life tasks or are you still able of doing things by yourself?

    • mote@lemmy.ca
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      https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS Here you go, argue with GrapheneOS - it’s an open platform, go ahead and make a masto account and share your thoughts with them. Tell them what you think! The rep who handles their masto account is very well spoken and presents rebuttals of value so I advise you bring your A game.

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        The rep who handles their masto account is very well spoken and presents rebuttals of value so I advise you bring your A game.

        Yeaaaah like deleting their earlier posts to make themselves look better and claiming the “haters” are coming from K*wi Farms.

        https://mas.to/@zzt/117246306723269935

        Truly good rebuttals right here!

      • qyron@sopuli.xyz
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        2 days ago

        I’m not going to approach them in any fashion. I have already made my decision about their work/product and the GrapheneOS is not of my interest.

        The project must have their reasons but I still insist on what I’ve stated regarding AI in general.

      • General_Effort@lemmy.worldOP
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        2 days ago

        You’re right, but don’t encourage people to brigade GrapheneOS. That’s a donation-funded project.

        • qyron@sopuli.xyz
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          2 days ago

          I’m not brigading anyone. They have their reasons, I have my view regarding AI, that is it. I did not attack the GrapheneOS team in any way nor do I intend to.

        • mote@lemmy.ca
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          My bad, I didn’t think of that. My only thought was “$20 says this chucklehead won’t do squat” because we know.