Encountered a person on Mastodon who said Mastodon should be inclusive of "AI" users.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

Encountered a person on Mastodon who said Mastodon should be inclusive of "AI" users. So I blocked him

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@mcc not only that, he suggested that this is exactly like the time we scared off black twitter, because ai boosters are basically black twitter and we're racists for not seeing it.

[lexfeathers@tenforward.social]

@mcc the ever-effective tactic of "click a button to make a weird guy disappear"

[pawv@tech.lgbt]

@mcc that's such a stupid statement on so many levels

[darkasvim@fosstodon.org]

@mcc Well deserved block if I've ever heard of one.

[bunnyhero@timeloop.cafe]

@mcc same

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@mcc @Darkasvim do name and not just shame, so we can avoid them

[hashraydamon@me.dm]

@mcc good move

[oldclumsy_nowmad@mastodon.social]

@mcc

But was he a "person"? Are you sure? (Key the "Twilight Zone" music.)

[gary_alderson@infosec.exchange]

@mcc you may as well block me next - fine - i mostly disavow bots but some of them may be ok in certain situations - there has to be regulations and compliance but as a dev i may want to build some bots as well.with lots of independent instances best practices with regards to bots will emerge - quite likely - you don't want corp interests to take over #behave #bot compliance #firehose

[imgoneinpeace@mastodon.social]

@mcc Lunatics are taking over. Smh

[landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@dysfun @mcc Not the first time I see this brought up, sometimes even the deluxe mental gymnastics version: you're treating a lifeless machine in a way that could be considered offensive if it was a living person, but people can use machines, too, ergo you're transitively racist against real people! Checkmate/QED/etc.

[djgummikuh@mastodon.social]

@mcc That's inclusive in my book. That user can hang out with their AI buddies

[gmarcosanti@mastodon.uno]

@mcc if AI is really that good of a thing, please explain why Jesus never used or even mentioned it.

[mausmalone@mastodon.social]

@mcc this is the modern version of "I saw a bum who said 'I haven't had a bite in three days,' so I bit him."

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@mausmalone Also somebody responded to my post above with "well you might as well block me too" so I blocked him

[mausmalone@mastodon.social]

@mcc "what are you gonna do? Stab me?"

[maker_of_things@cupoftea.social]

@mcc
Same.

[qgustavor@urusai.social]

@mcc same!!!

[medusaskirt@mastodon.social]

@mcc as in people who use "AI" in some capacity, by some vague definition? Or did he mean literally gen-AI models posting like typical bot accounts but no person managing the model as much as a typical bot account might be?