This applies to all software. You didn't make the monitor your app is being displayed on. Stop taking credit for the compiler that made your code runnable, etc.
There's a great difference between making a table with tools other people made, and ordering a custom table on Amazon, waxing it, and claiming you made it. This shouldn't even be an argument.
What a crazy era we live in where people can finally take full credit for someone else's work, because that someone else is an algorithm that even encourages you to do so.
If you mean Komai specifically, I think that this characterization is unfair.
Komai is explicitly presented as a fork of Nheko. We credit the upstream project, major libraries (matrix-sdk) and assets (iconsets, etc.), and are open about using AI during development.
I’m not claiming sole authorship or pretending Komai was created from scratch. It's built on existing work (done by various humans over many years) and we're being transparent and thankful about it.
Disclosure: I've spent multiple months working on Komai (with AI and other humans).
I was specifically addressing my parent comment, which was equating taking credit for LLM output to taking credit for making something using tooling or hardware.
Who cares if they used AI assistance? Vision is theirs, prompting is theirs, guidance is theirs, verification and iteration and feedback and so on is theirs. It's not like they zero-shot "make a Matrix client for Linux" and then just posted that with zero processing, review, testing, or anything. Sheesh.
Yeah! The burning of litres of waters is theirs, the degredation of their intellect and ability is theirs, the financial support of the companies ruining the internet and the world is theirs, the support of the hype machine ruining the economy is theirs!
It's not like they woke up and went "I'm selfish, let's make everything a little bit worse for everyone" - but evil wins when good people vibe slop and we just let it go.
Let's not blame the victim for this. I know it's unorthodox to think that evil corporations are exploiting their users in order to get away with evil things.