I will never understand how the project that respected licenses and trademarks so much that they forked the entire #Mozilla stack to comply ever decided that #AI usage could ever be considered ethical.
I have many machines that are somehow related to @pidgin's development and the vast majority of them run #debian. To keep #AI out of #Pidgin, I now I need to find a new distribution. This is yet another example of me having to pay into the #AI time deficit. 🙄
"But here I am, with [this arsenal of smallpox and nerve gas] for the past [century]. I’m not comfortable with it, but the utility is just too great for me to take a principled stance here. I like it, and I want it, so I’m using it. Maybe that’s morally questionable, or worse. But, as I said: here I am."
We're at the stage of cultural decline where we just publicly announce our amorality.
I want to denounce him, ridicule him, but who has the rhetorical powers to execrate this individual more than he has just willingly done to himself?
