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Comment by throw10920

13 hours ago

Who are these developers that have both been "advocating for best practices" and also "seem to be completely abandoning all of them simply because it’s AI"? Can you point to a dozen blogs/Twitter profiles, or are you just inventing a fictitious "other" to attack?

The person being quoted for one, who is apparently focused on safety and alignment at meta. Safety being handing over your email credentials to the shiny new thing, apparently

  • Are they even a developer? “Safety and alignment” as AI buzzwords are quite different from “security and privacy”. In any case, I wouldn’t take a random person with a sinecure job as exemplary of anything.

> Who are these developers that have both been "advocating for best practices" and also "seem to be completely abandoning all of them simply because it’s AI"?

All of them. Apparently uploading all your codez to some cloud provider that doesn't even have a figleaf of a EULA is okay now, because "AI".