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KDE and AI, and you, and me
(pointieststick.com)
Personal opinion: Nathan seems to be really side-stepping a lot of concerns brought of up in the comments there. And referring to people coming together collectively in an open-letter when virtually all other channels are closed as 'brigading' is... Not cool. Edit: he retracted the use of brigading.
EDIT 2: Nate has since closed the comments on his blog, and the one discussion thread on KDE Discuss about the AI Policy was closed suddenly without explanation after a KDE developer began to discuss the ethics of AI use. Nate then responded after the thread was closed with this:
Yeah that's kind of where I'm at. KDE has been pretty right-on for as long as I can recall, and it looks like at the moment they're just discussing AI broadly, which I personally don't think is an unreasonable thing to do, but even that's enough to get everyone riled up at the moment. Obviously if they actually do something sketchy like adding AI slop into Plasma then I'll revise my opinion, but it doesn't look to me like they've done anything especially egregious so far.
If you didn't get a chance to see the original policy proposal thread that started the controversy, you can still read it here.