LibreOffice is now a project that uses chatbot code then tells people who call them out that slop is "not slop"
so much for the "no AI" babble
https://web.archive.org/web/20261026230500/https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/117214068793979843
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@davidgerard They never proclaimed to be no AI in that sense though. Their campaign was “no integrated AI by default, your documents are yours”.
@mono lol begone sockpuppet
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shout out to the Lobste.rs user who called me pointing out LO had merged slop commits "purity testing"
@federicoschonborn *walks up to you covered in shit* purity tester
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when a bakery announces they won't put asbestos in their cake frosting you must not point out they're already putting asbestos in their cake filling, you see
@davidgerard add office suite to the list of things we'll need to build a nonslop replacement for. Right after OS, nbd
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Sigh.
Wake me when we finally hit slopocalypse bottom.
@davidgerard plus that snarky tone. what a bunch of asshats.
@davidgerard Oh shiiiiiiit! What other alternative
? Open Office? Something else
@davidgerard why does it matter if contributors use AI to improve the product?
@davidgerard Strong correlation between slop apology and sealioning, isn't there?
@atanasoff @davidgerard I think over a million people more eloquent than me have written extensively about the issues with AI at this point, and it's all just a web search away.
That being said one of my favorite pieces on it is Codeberg's writeup from when they banned AI-heavy projects:
https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html
And also this one, though that's a bit of a broader discussion about AI usage as a whole:
https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/
Finally, I also recently saw a nice collection of links about environmental impacts of AI and the involvement of the firms behind it in genocide, here:
https://github.com/tutao/tutanota/discussions/11601#discussioncomment-18760265
@davidgerard STOP PLEASE GOD MAKE IT STOP WHY IS EVERYTHING I LIKE GOING TO SLOP
@davidgerard Still trying to spin my head the correct orientation because it was just a month or two ago where they were going big on the "never AI" campaign...to see the exact opposite done is....insane.
@davidgerard
Great 😑
Any suggestions of what program I can switch to? I have a LOT of old writing docs done with LO
@angelteeth older LO basically
@davidgerard @angelteeth
Kinda unfortunate due to security vulnerabilities and bugs piling up as time goes by. :'(
@davidgerard we already went from OpenOffice to LibraOffice, which new synonym should we use for the next one?
@ShadSterling @davidgerard HumanOffice / MeatOffice / OrganOffice
@davidgerard Oh FFS really? So goddamn disappointed.
@davidgerard did they delete all their posts or something, the account looks dead and abandoned
@davidgerard And the snark. You can just smell the cash infusion through the screen.
@davidgerard Wasn't there another OpenOffice fork, or is that one AI generated too now?
@jackemled The Document Foundation (the org for LibreOffice) kicked out Collabora Productivity, who made a bit over half the commits to the codebase, for entirely unclear reasons (Collabora doesn't know what they are either). Collabora now makes Collabora Office/Collabora Online itself. I don't know what Collabora's slop policy is.
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Yet another story of This Is Not Slop Because I Say So™.