GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding

GrapheneOS is currently defending its use of AI coding tools on Mastodon against complaints by various accounts claiming to be users.

We do not understand where you’re coming from or why you’re so incredibly angry with us. It’s not justified and does not make sense.

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I’m with Linus Torvalds and GrapheneOS on this. AI is a useful tool, for all its flaws and negative externalities.

I am sure I will be down voted on Lemmy for this but using AI for development by a team who is already experienced in development of the product they are working on is not a moral failing.

My personal experience but the people who blindly bitch about AI are, quite frankly, idiots.

I use AI daily for work it’s an extremely helpful tool as you stated. I still have concerns with it.

The difference is I understand human nature and the genie cannot be put back in the bottle. We need governance and standards and it needs to be a utility just like hydro, water and The Internet. There also needs to be a global UBI yesterday.

What people are bitching about with AI amount to the lack of control we the people have over it.

I’m surprised you haven’t been downvoted but I bet I will for calling a spade a spade in these people so rigidly opposed.

I don’t think anyone is “blindly bitching”. I think people have understandable concerns regarding its development, use, and proliferation.

The other idea that it needs to be a utility is straight from the wet dreams of every AI company. Realistically, the average person has little use for AI and it’s much more likely to be a detriment to them than otherwise. I know someone who is an exec in a big company and they get AI through their work. They use it for inane things mostly, but recently they used it to generate a list of reasons that their kids do need to go to school. This is an educated person with a good job who can’t figure out that AI has no idea what their kids need.

I don’t think AI needs to be used by nearly the number of people currently using it, but my bigger concern is letting anyone, be it a private company or a government, have access to something people treat like a magic answer anything machine.

There are absolutely rabid anti-AI people on Lemmy even who think it’s just autocorrect.