A few months ago when Automattic started pushing AI everywhere and did deals with AI companies selling their user's writing I stated (https://tante.cc/2024/02/27/the-automattic-ai-thing/):
"Maybe WordPress needs a fork and a new home governed by an entity that does care about the people using it to express themselves. Automattic obviously does not want to be that."
Baldur's post basically underlines just that.
https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112637484711042117
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