Post #1686837

2026-04-24 21:53 UTC

On this #FreeCADFriday I encourage everyone who cares about FreeCAD and open-source in general to reach out to the #FreeCAD Project Association and demand they adopt a ZERO TOLERANCE stance on AI contributions. It&#39;s... theft! destroying our planet! enriching, empowering awful people like Thiel why we cannot have RAM or clean drinking water. Read the notes. It&#39;s clear that AI only begets more AI &quot;This AI contribution is shit, lets use another AI tool to vet it! derp!&quot; https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-developer-meetings/blob/main/Minutes/minutes-2026-04-05.md#ai-generated-patches

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@morgan@leds.social 2026-04-24 21:56

fpa@freecad.org

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@Heuristix@mastodon.social 2026-04-25 05:32

@morgan@leds.social I am not a developer, just a user of FreeCad but I fully agree, though the Easter egg was a bit scary

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@iuvi@mastodon.social 2026-04-25 08:31

@morgan@leds.social well, this is not fully true. What about local Ai's?

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@jrdepriest@infosec.exchange 2026-04-25 17:20

@morgan@leds.social @kevinrns@mstdn.social The meeting minutes do not contain any mention of the environmental damage or the strong ties to authoritarian fascism. They focus on the theft, human skill attrition, poor code quality, and the increase in volume. I find that odd given the very visible, grassroots pushback on data center proliferation by regular people who want to protect their water and air from the greedy oligarchs. We can probably thank Elon Musk's ratfucking of Memphis and Northern Mississippi for that movement. If they only care about code quality, then that's the measure they will use. I'm not sure how to get them to see the bigger picture.

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