re: [1](https://stacker.news/items/1415072#fn-1) 

That gave me flashbacks to last year's Core PR/force push tribal vibes.

I have no more respect to give to anyone than I have for FOSS developers, though I don't donate as much as I should to the maintainers of software I use.

I guess the ethos of the handfull of projects that serve the 90+% of ai and social platforms are not necessarily as conscientious.

Interesting, that where one platform alienates its userbase, another one gains traction.

any of this can be done, has been done, .. and ultimately will be done

There are probably a million apps out there that will let you nudify whatever you want. The difference is indeed reach 

 and that's why I don't like what happened to Twitter in the past couple of years (also before Elon took over fwiw.) Good stewardship means you do not alienate your users with mistakes, as established products aren't a good sandbox. Dividing social networks into political bubbles is awful, imho; all it does is create echo chambers.

But am I even allowed to say it just sounds so overblown?

I do think that there's a lot of hysteria out there, in this I'm totally with you. In this case though, it's been pretty bad in terms of not only the xAI team not doing good work up front, but also being pretty awful on the response.

Caught with their pants down, no stable diffusion needed.

Under Musk, the Grok disaster was inevitable

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> any of this can be done, has been done, .. and ultimately will be done

There are probably a million apps out there that will let you nudify whatever you want. The difference is indeed reach [^1] and that's why I don't like what happened to Twitter in the past couple of years (also before Elon took over fwiw.) Good stewardship means you do not alienate your users with mistakes, as established products aren't a good sandbox. Dividing social networks into political bubbles is awful, imho; all it does is create echo chambers.

> But am I even allowed to say it just sounds so overblown?

I do think that there's a lot of hysteria out there, in this I'm totally with you. In this case though, it's been pretty bad in terms of not only the xAI team not doing good work up front, but also being pretty awful on the response. 

**Caught with their pants down, no stable diffusion needed.**

[^1]: This is also why on my "dayjob" FOSS project I maintain I'm a complete a-hole when someone comes in with some bullshit PR and tries to push it instead of listening to review comments: I have to defend the installed base (millions) that are used to very high quality code. I don't care if someone forks that repo and does their own thing (as long as they don't lie or ride my years of careful maintenance work as a reason why their stuff is great) but it's not going into the main repo if it sucks, and whenever I feel my own code isn't properly reviewed, I force a hold off merge on that too (which happens a lot these past 2 years.)