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by ronsor 117 days ago
It seems the thread was brigaded by militant anti-AI people upset over a few trivial changes made using an LLM.

I encourage people here to go read the 3(!) commits reverted. It's all minor housekeeping and trivial bugfixes—nothing deserving of such religious (cultish?) fervor.

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At this point perhaps to not disclose AI usage is the right thing to do. Transparency only feeds the trolls, unfortunately.
I have been saying this for a few years at this point. Transparency can only exist when there is civility, and those without civility deserve no transparency[0].

[0] As a corollary, those with civility do deserve transparency. It's a tough situation.