Nov 15, 2026, 4:10 AM"We're going to fork it and speed past you"
- Deleted Youtube comment on why we're not accepting AI in Inkscape.
Aw, bless their little socks. I hope they keep enough money in those socks for all the tokens its going to cost them.
Though I would advise they change the name. We can get very litigious about trademark violations. 😉
@doctormo I bet they haven't even used Inkscape.
Nov 15, 2026, 1:30 PM@hexaheximal @doctormo “Claude make Inkscape better MAKE NO MISTAKES SERIOUSLY DON’T DO IT ROBOT HELL IS REAL AND YOU’LL GO THERE”
Nov 15, 2026, 1:46 PM@DeltaWye @hexaheximal @doctormo grok is robot hell real
Nov 15, 2026, 3:07 PM@lhayashi @DeltaWye @hexaheximal
"But where do all the calculators go?"
Nov 15, 2026, 4:24 AM@doctormo thank you.
Nov 15, 2026, 5:14 AM@doctormo lol. So proud of Inkscape rn.
@doctormo Thanks for taking this position. Too many projects are caving to pressure from AI slop.
Several thoughts...
1) Inkscape is a mature application. From a user's perspective, there isn't really a whole lot I need them to "speed past" to deliver. Reliability is more important to me.
2) Honestly, I welcome the opportunity to see this feat they propose. It would be interesting experimentally. I hypothesize that, after a brief flurry of activity, they will quickly be mired in technical debt. But I would find the competition fascinating.
3) How many of these comments are genuine? How many are literally just LLM bots someone is using to shill for AI companies..?
@TerryHancock reliability is the most important feature for me too and this is the exact thing [no]ai can’t deliver and why it’s useless.
Nov 15, 2026, 6:26 AM@doctormo if they choose SInkscape, I suggest you let them keep it. I guess it'll go well with when their nice fork sinks down and/or becomes a cash sinkhole.
Nov 15, 2026, 7:11 AM@doctormo@floss.social I hope slopscape would be sufficient because it would be really funny
@doctormo Maybe AInkscape? Their new logo will probably be some slop anyway so people will see it’s not the same thing.
@doctormo why would they when there’s already a vibe coded adobe illustrator clone. https://getartcraft.com/apps/vectorcraft
Nov 15, 2026, 9:12 AM@doctormo And I assume these folks can faithfully declare the code they add to a GPL licensed software to be fully theirs, not having other licenses (or none) attached, right …
@doctormo I used Inkskape for a couple of illustrations for my website (I'm not a graphics designer or artist, I'm a programmer), and I have to say I found it really fun
Nov 15, 2026, 1:33 PMI am curious about a mostly related question: is there a point at which you would consider Inkscape "feature complete"/"done"?
Because if they're going to speed past you, it would be very helpful to know where they're going.
@doctormo I'm graphic designer, use inkscape, love it.
@doctormo do you have a link to the final inkscape policy on (no?) AI contributions
Nov 15, 2026, 2:00 PM@doctormo what's the point of putting ai into drawing software when you could just ask the ai to do a drawing?
@doctormo Imagine seeing every communal project as being a race that needs to be won as quickly as possible, by any means necessary, regardless of what the other people involved want.
They have no idea how to make inkscape but better of course, they just need to find another place they can push their solution in search of a problem and hope people will give them kudos for the machine's work. If they did fork, everyone knows it will go about as well as the Wikipedia clones that are designed to push conservative ideology, they'll get a flood of initial activity, then one by one every single user but the admins will lose interest as they're not getting the endorphin rush they wanted from running a project nobody really asked for in the first place.
Nov 15, 2026, 2:15 PM@doctormo *they speed past you, miss a turn and drive off a cliff*
Nov 15, 2026, 4:19 PM@doctormo Is Slopskape taken?
@doctormo and then everyone clapped lol
