Post #1673881

@webology @ehmatthes @wsvincent Ok fine, I'll jump in with a hot take 😅 I don't think it's unreasonable to anticipate anti-user patterns to emerge over the long term. (I think the GitHub/Msoft acquisition is a fair proxy--though OpenAI is a less stable company, which could accelerate enshittification) In the near term, they will want to bank on user's goodwill and trust--so I don't see a lot of changes coming immediately. But it's highly possible/likely that intentions will change, whether it's through feature bloat, licensing changes, monetization, user privacy breaches, etc... I'm glad for the developers. They've done great work, and I think it has been positive for the Python ecosystem. It's notable, however, that at least on Masto, the overall response to this news is negative. OpenAI is not a trustworthy company... (not to anthropomorphize a company... so, rather, Altman and his sycophants exhibit questionable ethics and viewpoints, and their leadership can't be trusted...)