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

[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?

[mattmerk@mastodon.social]

@mausmalone

@MattMerk (me) enters the chat and stabs him, takes a short bow, and quickly exits.

@mcc

[theowashere@mastodon.social]

@mcc Read the i as an lower case L and was like wondering what people named Al did, to deserve being excluded

[yinyinfalcon@mastodon.online]

@mirabilos all of this is a misrepresentation of what scott was "trying" to talk about in that thread regendans linked you

you are best informed if you just read his latests posts since starting that disaster

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@YinYinFalcon I still have no reference whom people are talking about…

[yinyinfalcon@mastodon.online]

@mirabilos

https://social.coop/@scottjenson

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@YinYinFalcon eh, blocked for posting shit :þ

[yinyinfalcon@mastodon.online]

@mirabilos mission accomplished 🫡

I hope the team learns that they need people with actual social education to do these kind of things

[catriona@tech.lgbt]

@mcc It's the type of person who yells "You just can't handle disagreement!" at people who are specifically in the middle of disagreeing with them.

Even though that makes no sense, they hope (and are, sadly, often correct, although less so on Mastodon) that by doing this, they can reframe the discourse to make them look 'reasonable' and their opponents look unreasonable, and in that way they can manipulate and dominate the conversation.

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@YinYinFalcon I don’t understand what team you mean. I had blocked that account ages ago.

[yinyinfalcon@mastodon.online]

@mirabilos uh ohh

bad news for you then - he's currently "Product Strategy Advisor to Mastodon Core team"

I feel he means well but is entirely unsuited to tackle this problem, likely just due to his career path/position of privilege