Fuck yeah that’s awesome! Wishing you the best of luck and no off-by-one errors haha

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?

Could be soup for all we know :p

That is one strong ear

Followed by a sneering, rude as hell comment that’s actually praising them.

I got a response! https://bark.lgbt/@cloudskater/116179184695668448

That’s funny because I leave songs unreleased for the single fact that I can’t commission art for all of them, and I have no skills personally, so I DO find it harder to make cover art then music! But you know what I still do? Get an actual artist to make something for me! At some point!

What kind of software are you making? I mostly make music and videos and stuff so I have no clue if it applies to me but please put it on my radar.

Also can I marry you?

Yuuuup! And I ain’t sticking around long enough to find out!

Idk if I’d call it mean spirited, but it sure was meant to be rude, yeah. Why should I respect someone who so blatantly disrespects me and my creative peers, and in such an obviously hypocritical way? I would never incite harassment against anyone, but I have no tolerance left for people who do anything less then shun this stuff. We’ve all had years to understand the harms “generative” AI causes, yet some people who run decentralized instances, heck, even those who create open source tools, continue to either turn a blind eye or be outright accepting of this shit.

I don’t think it’s productive to bash people either, but if I get a response as ignorant as the one I got from Meldrik, in 2026, it isn’t my responsibility to be civil to someone who clearly does not care. At that point, all I can really muster is, “Wow. You’re a dick.” because anything else is a waste of my time.

I use Posteo. They’re green and pretty solid from everything I’m aware of.

I will. https://bark.lgbt/@cloudskater/116179184695668448

Also, I reached out to OpenShot because there really aren’t that many good open source video editors and I wanted to try them on for size, and I got a self proclaimed bot reply to my email… that claimed the software made no use of generative AI. Now, to be fair, idk if it was a generated reply or a pre-written human one that was sent to me based off some of the words in my message or something, but the irony is hilarious.

Also also, if you don’t have AI, why not state it on your website? I don’t get why FLOSS projects will say “yeah we don’t use AI” when asked, but won’t state it right up front. It should be a point of pride, it’s one of the reasons I come to you over closed source options! The very nature of open source goes against that slop, omfg have a backbone!

So this is what Whisper and whatnot is like? Framasoft responded tastefully to me and I understand their perspective, but now I’m realizing that Kdenlive has some similar, and potentially generative features and I’m trying to get testimony from the devs of that project because istfg if their using fucking generative AI just as I was getting used to and learning my way around their video editor, I’m going to lose it.

My friend did the same thing and didn’t get why I wouldn’t tolerate it, even tho he wrote the lyrics. Also, this is coming from someone who LOVES pitch correction as an effect. I adore synth pop and digitally perfected vocals as a choice.

Right, I see what you mean. That’s just a weird perspective to have. I know right now Kdenlive is pretty much the only FLOSS video editor, but if there were other comparable ones, imagine if I tore you to pieces over your choice to use the other one? For no reason? Damn.

“Drama” One of the dev teams are literally huge bigots. I agree this community isn’t the place for it, that’s fine, but I can’t help but take issue people refer to real issues as “drama” and nothing more.

Ahhh okay. I totally get why people are debating this, even if I have no experience in these fields. I was mostly worried there was some crypto/AI bullshit behind the scenes of Rust or some shady funding… idk, something really bad other then an argument getting out of hand.

I might need to look into what the hell ChapoTrapHouse is now lol

Problem is, I’ve heard, that .ml and .world share funding and isn’t .dev tankie ridden too? Either that or it’s full of AI bros, I could be wrong.

Jesus is that what’s happening? I’m not strictly a communist or anarchist (tho I consider them my allies) but maybe that’s because the ones I’ve encountered are upfront and honest about who they are and what they believe instead of trying to obfuscate it lol Aside from outright trolling, what is even the point of acting this way? I genuinely don’t get it from any perspective.