Martin Hähnel
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/117390234976335897

It's amazing how many things remind me of @JulianOliver’s plastic metaphor in my online travels. The idea of not thinking of AI generated content and code as “infesting” the pure world (of FOSS in this case, but the metaphor holds for other things, too like that little retro online community quxnet I linked to), but instead of thinking of a world, in a way, that doesn't exist without AI generated content (anymore). It's a radical perspective shift, similar to the notion of “naturecultures” or the “anthropocene” (probably not by accident) and a painful one. But it seems like a much better vocabulary to talk about the problem of maintaining sanity in a world that doesn't allow for purity in this regard.

P.S.: I’d be happy to be proven wrong about my assertion that AI is unavoidable which comes close to saying “inevitable" and certainly is just another way of saying “is here to stay - at least for a while” but I can't dream of a better future without acknowledging where I feel we are.

Quoting @JulianOliver@mastodon.social

A lot of us in the free software space are stinging rn, watching slop worm its way into our communities, tools, perhaps even the philosophy itself. I'm seeing justifiably protectionist language like infiltration, infestation, infection. & while from a security standpoint, vibed code can oft be compared to digital asbestos, I find myself reaching more for organic vs inorganic (code), bc just as it's very hard to live without plastic, it's already very difficult to avoid slop in free software 1/n

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