And I have a positive example for this, too: our Pages service was going to go away because nobody wanted to maintain it any more.

But we asked the community, and they really wanted a Pages service.

So a heroic volunteer (thank you @whitequark) stepped up to write us new infrastructure, and our infra team found the time and motivation to work on patching up the existing infra. And now the future of Codeberg Pages is safe – because the community told us they wanted it.

More and more I think we need strong social norms against using LLMs in 'write mode'.

When they're used in read mode, the only person they're misinforming is you, the twit that decided to use one. In write mode? They've got the ability to disseminate false knowledge to others, an actively hostile and anti-social act. This should be seen as akin to littering or fly-tipping.

At the absolute minimum you have the social responsibility to admit that the artifact you brought into creation was done so with a language model to minimise the fallout to others. Ideally, don't publish it at all.