Greg Hogan <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, Apr 5, 2026 at 11:11 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] >> Yet you have not named even one benefit. I will name some costs: >> >> LLM companies have repeatedly knocked over many other web services with >> bad crawlers that disrespect robots.txt as widely reported on Mastodon >> and elsewhere over the last 5 years; > > This discussion is about the use of AI in Guix. > >> several documented cases of suicidal ideation encouraged by LLM leading >> to self-harm or murder, reported on regional news outlets and collected >> by Caelan Conrad; > > "Suicidal ideation" is now progressive "life-affirming care", but > again this discussion is about the use of AI in Guix.
I do not think it is valid to look at the topic so narrowly. Some technologies and/or services are inherently immoral and unethical, and using them "for good cause" does not wash those problems away. Tomas -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
