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  • @pndcpndc@treehouse.systems
    Oct 16, 2026, 10:47 AM

    It turns out that @freecad is the latest project to fall victim to slop. To their partial credit, they are acknowledging it's controversial and are retooting a sample of pro and anti responses they've had.

    The difference in the responses is stark.

    The anti-slop responses relate disappointment, betrayal, and concern for the future of the project. These are mostly people who have at least some investment in the project even if "just" users and not contributors.

    The pro-slop responses are purely pushback and not constructive: Fork the project. Write your own replacement. Use something else. Ad hominem attacks. These people are not invested in the project at all, they're just interested in pushing their agenda. Come back in a week and they'll be vociferously defending slop on another project, having forgotten that FreeCAD ever existed.

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  • @pndcpndc@treehouse.systems
    Oct 16, 2026, 10:55 AM

    Regardless of the actual merits or downsides of the use of AI, it is increasingly obvious that AI boosters are not the kind of people you want to let anywhere near your project. Or indeed your drink.

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  • Matt Goddenmetaning@mastodon.social
    Oct 16, 2026, 11:37 AM

    @pndc So in 60s & 70s there was a thing where people with genital herpes (especially within the hippie / counterculture movement) would try to infect as many people as possible, deliberately. Their goal was to achieve ubiquity of infection, so that their infected status was no longer a reason for someone to refuse their advances.

    Which really seems like the pro-#AI vibe.

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