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  • Because this isn’t supposed to be repository of knowledge, it’s a social place for humans to talk to other humans. You might think it helped with a specific question, but long term you’re poisoning the well, and setting a norm where trust is eroded even further.

    The fact that you didn’t initially flag it up as being a clanker until you were called on it shows that you know deep down that it’s not classy.

    Deploying a low-effort AI to provide “balance” to Lemmy is not your responsibility, and not something anyone would vote for if given the option. AI output is like farts; people only like the smell of their own. If you couldn’t bothered writing it, then how disrespectful is it to waste other people’s time expecting them to read it?

    So I repeat: cut it out, nobody wants Lemmy to be a place where you ask a question and some lazy-ass meat proxy who lacks the intellect or patience to do their own writing, passes it over to an LLM.




  • seconded, they charge $21/month/seat if you’re using the pro features; that’s $50k a year even for a smallish team of 20, just to use their website. Once you get to a bigger company with 800 seats, that’s $1M over 5 years, for something that was mostly built on free OSS software to begin with.

    Not to mention the biggest bait-and-switch in history that they pulled off on Github Copilot subscriptions, that I’m guessing a lot of big orgs won’t have cancelled yet. They really are laughing all the way to the bank.