@matt I reject it for ethical reasons, the same way I avoid shopping with Amazon.com for ethical reasons more than any pragmatic reason.

Is Amazon often the cheapest, fastest way for me to acquire a thing? Yes. Is it also a terrible company? Yes. If I can acquire something in another way, I look elsewhere. (I am not perfect about this.)

Even if you could show me evidence that, somehow, generative AI produced 100% accurate code or text, I'd still be against using it on ethical and social grounds.

Do I use some LLM-driven software? Yes. I use some local models for transcription. Do I double-check the results? Also yes, because I cannot be 100% sure its results are accurate, and I don't want a fabricated quote winding up in an LWN article.

Might I use LLM-driven stuff at some point for grammar checking? I already use LanguageTool, so ... maybe?

But purely generative AI stuff... I have too many ethical, social, etc. qualms against it to make it part of my work even if I was confident it was 100% accurate. (This is not all, strictly speaking, ethical - I also have qualms about its impact on FOSS development from many other angles, such as increasing the velocity of PRs and putting maintainers under even more stress.)

I also, currently, reject it partially out of spite/stubborness -- there is far too much "peer pressure" and pushing to accept it. I cannot claim this is a logical stance, but when this much money is being spent to push something, I feel like somebody should be pushing the other direction. I'm just dumb enough to be that somebody.