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musician | preservationist | anti-capitalist | ai hater

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Cake day: February 25th, 2026

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  • The dev “owes us” as people to not be a shitty person, or at the very least, we should expect them not to be one. It absolutely is a slap in the face to people who trusted that project and the person heading it to not be shit, because they are now being shit, and people are right to call them out. Because they’re being shit.

    Also you’re right, more people should donate to FLOSS projects that they love and use frequently, as do I. As someone with no programming knowledge, it’s all I can do aside from recommending your software to others. Wanna know one way to ensure I’ll not only withhold donations but warn others not to use or trust your software? Defending and/or using AI slop machines.









  • I like your thought process, but struggle to agree with you because I don’t believe there is a way for this kind of technology to be ethical without being rebooted (haha) from the ground up. Even so, about the only thing I think it should be used for is double checking what humans have already done, or perhaps printing text from human speech for quick and dirty subtitles. However, all that is assuming that the data it is working off of was not stolen, and that it is not able to “generate” anything “new” because that’s just theft and exploitation.









  • Yeah I… Okay let’s take automatic subtitle creation for instance. That existed well before the LLM bs and was fine. Plus, the stuff they’re calling AI isn’t pretending to “create” anything, it’s just automating some repetitive tasks or using pattern recognition to move an effect across the frame. If we were to continue to criticize them (which would be fair), I would say that they should not even entertain software made by companies like OpenAI, even if they were fully transparent. However, I don’t think it’s on the same level as including or supporting anything that claims to be generative.

    I won’t be installing the AI stuff either, just to be safe, but my issues with the things they replied to me with are the sources of the code they’re using and it’s potential to be exploitative, not the actual uses of the software. Does that make sense?