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Anti-AI fedi pact?
(lemmy.world)
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this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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The Threads issue was not polarizing at all, almost everyone here was clearly on the side that Meta can fuck right off
AI on the other hand does have serious arguments on both sides. What would the resulting decisions even be?
It's totally possible that in your corner of the fediverse it wasn't controversial to defederate Meta/Threads, but it definitely wasn't a consensus position overall.
For example, the largest Mastodon instance didn't defederate, and a lot of prominent voices on the rest of the microblogging fedi argued against defederating. I was pretty shocked about it tbh!
You're going to have a pretty tough time with DB0. I don't think any of us want AI bots posting fake posts or lazy slop bullshit, but many of us just see LLMs as a tool. It's not the technology's fault that a bunch of rich assholes want to drive the economy to the ground over it.
Yeah the criticism tends to go to extremes here sometimes. I remember one open source project being criticized just because some AI assisted commits were added and people were saying that it should be forked and shit just because of that.
I'm definitely very against the way companies try to shove it down our throats and make use of it in ridiculous ways and destroy the environment by putting no limits to its use, but the problem as usual is the socioeconomic system behind the tool and not the tool itself.