[keybored]

> Trying to harm your users for using gen-AI seems like the worst type of overeager activism that does more to destroy your reputation and trust than achieving anything tangible.

“Seems like” hedging. It will positively affect their reputation in the eyes of other sabuteours and anti-X. And may raise their trust indirectly by them inferring that the project is run in an anti-X way.

It will also lower the trust that the users have in pointing their agents at arbitrary text, probably also a desired outcome for the saboteur.

“Seems like” concern can often just be replaced with: I personally dislike this.

[MachineBurning]

Not sure why you're picking apart the wording. They're clearly stating an opinion, and writing "seems like" makes it clear that it's an opinion. There is no "to me" but IMO it's implicit.