@nik @adafruit

They are talking to everyone. This is Mastodon - if you don't like a poster, don't follow, or block and move on.

Background for the confused: some folks at Adafruit have found utility in using AI for circuit board layouts. This isn't unreasonable - verifiable technical tasks evade some of the flaws in current AI output. Some other folks are offended by this. They should shop elsewhere if it's that important to them. What they shouldn't do is try to drag *anyone* for it, especially on Mastodon. On mastodon, you only see content of people you follow or that people you follow boosted. If you don't like that content - block or unfollow, please. Evangelists of any stripe will have a hard time here by design. We block early and often.

Yes, AI has some ugly baggage. But like almost everything in this world, it is not wholly evil or pure - it's just tech, and the moral value comes from how it's created and used, it isn't inherent. My personal take is that the technology is far less an issue than the reality of how it was trained and how the businesses selling it are affecting the economy, but doing that justice is a rant that also probably doesn't belong here.

If this upsets anyone, block me. Please.

@nik @adafruit @tbortels You don't like people posting about why they don't like other peoples' Fediverse posts, you think they should just block and move on... so you decided to post about it?

OK then! Go block yourself!