alt Hacker NewsAnti-AI sentiment is quite extreme. You can easily get death threats if you're associating yourself with AI publicly. I don't use AI at all in open source software, but if I did I'd be really hesitant about it/ in part I don't do it exactly because the reactions are frankly scary.
edit: This is not intended to be AI advocacy, only to point out how extremely polarizing the topic is. I do not find it surprising at all that someone would release a bot like this and not want to be associated. Indeed, that seems to be the case, by all accounts
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> You can easily get death threats if you're associating yourself with AI publicly.
That's a pretty hefty statement, especially the 'easily' part, but I'll settle for one well known and verified example.
> This is not intended to be AI advocacy
I think it is: It fits the pattern, which seems almost universally used, of turning the aggressor A into the victim and thus the critic C into an aggressor. It also changes the topic (from A's behavior to C's), and puts C on the defensive. Denying / claiming innocence is also a very common tactic.
> You can easily get death threats if you're associating yourself with AI publicly.
What differentiates serious claims from more of the above and from Internet stuff is evidence. Is there some evidence somewhere of that?
Conflicting evidence: the fact that literally everyone in tech is posting about how they're using AI.