this has happened at least 3 times now. a person i had contact with suddenly says something in favor of AI usage. at first it looks slightly innocuous, the sort of take you go "ugh" but you wouldn't cut contact with someone over (at least i wouldn't a few months ago).
it's usually disguised as a defense or argument for something else too. "FOSS developers are burnt out" "anti-AI folks are being unreasonable" "i don't think we should demonize people for something like this".
at the time, i saw some of these takes but didn't do anything. because i didn't want to be "radical", "unreasonable".
but then it starts. a few days later, or sometimes even in the same thread, that same person is going full on AI defense. mocking anti-AI folks. and one thing becomes clear: what they are doing is trying to justify their own use or support of AI.
that's why i don't want to be around anyone anymore that doesn't have an explicit stance of "fuck AI, it should burn to the ground and there is no excuse for using it of one's own volition whatsoever".