Discussion
today's Pivot i think will be LibreOffice trumpeting NO AI then making excuses when they were caught with a codebase full of slop
what other examples are there of projects or companies doing anti-AI messaging and then getting caught slopping? Tuta for one, others?
(the LO thing is a whole coupla weeks ago, but it's important)
EDIT: nah Amy and I have a bug in our heads about the Ethereum suicide pact thing
@davidgerard not sure if it fits but this slop web browser has a fraudulent anti-AI contribution policy https://lwn.net/Articles/1102738/
@davidgerard it might be worth mentioning Mozilla and / or DuckDuckGo. Both have advertised their opt outs with "no AI" or "anti AI" messaging which is misleading
@davidgerard Firefox? They've evidently spent a ton of cash on their new adverts
@speculationfictive they never lied they were anti-AI tho
@davidgerard doh I was hoping for Nvidia spy chat. 😁
@ivor funny, but not i think substantial - I think Jensen's job is in no danger whatsoever because he's been delivering spectacularly in the CEO job
bet his wife takes him to the cleaner tho
@davidgerard it's eons old news by now (april?)
but have you talked about the blender situation? when they "walked back" their AI stance while still developing an addon for claude integration. as I recall, anthropic gave them €250.000 and called it a "partnership" on their own website
@wizbean oh yesss that's one to mention
@davidgerard earlier this year, Crimson Sea was discovered to contain AI assets even though the developers did not disclose it per Steam policy. I don't know if they tried to market as anti-AI but it is kind of implied. There are probably more examples of games doing this