Too risky. Who knows what's hiding in their code. Might be some copylefted library or a piece of code that's been copy-pasted into the project without fully complying with the copyleft requirements. Making sure this isn't the case and/or cleaning up an abandoned project can be costly and complicated. Easier for them to just kill it.
erytau
joined 2 months ago
You don't. I don't. We don't. My comment could have been written by AI, just as your post. At some point I'm sure some of us, without knowing, had a discussion with an AI bot pushing some sort of propaganda or shilling something. I mean, it was happening even before AI - years before, and some political regimes have been flooding the internet with their shit and it was well documented. Now it's just getting worse.
Even "vetted account run by a real person" can be later handed over to an AI bot farm.
Also, I have fun imagining a bunch of AI bots stuck in a discussion loop, endlessly shilling crap to each other, creating insanely long threads until the platform can't handle it anymore or until a Mod AI comes along and slaps them out of it.