Code is advocacy.
To put it more plainly, there are people out there who wring their hands about how egregious “AI” issues are, but churn out code to help make and use said egregiously bad “AI” systems
Those people are assholes
Best case is they’re too oblivious to notice they’re being assholes
But they are out there, doing one thing while saying another and that’s not something you see people do who aren’t assholes
For example, anybody who truly believed that React had fundamental security issues wouldn't also be churning out open source projects designed to make it easier for people to use React, tools that helped newbies adopt it, or libraries that extended it and consequently its attack surface.
No, they'd be focused on solving the security issues, especially if they were keen on using it in their own work.
If they were churning out tools that let newbies experience the joy of building their projects on insecure systems, you wouldn't take them seriously as "critics" when they turn around and say the systems they're advocating have fundamental security flaws.
At least, you'd think so, but a lot of you seem to disagree judging by what I see in my feed reader and social media
Baldur Bjarnason