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   Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 12:24:18 JST Glyph

   Sigh. New fun ethics problem. Apparent unattended AI goes around correcting basic spelling errors. Now we know the words are misspelled, we should correct them. Is this "using AI"? ugh. https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/pull/738

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 12:24:15 JST aeva

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     @glyph i would argue that you should absolutely not accept any grammar "correction" suggestions from spam bots though because grammar is subjective, automated grammar "correction" is how you sede cultural authority to the cultural void of west coast tech companies, and flatten out everything interesting about your voice. if a bot says your grammar is wrong and you agree it isn't quite right, delete the suggestion and write something else

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 12:24:16 JST aeva

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     @glyph there's no ethical quandary here. merging the PR makes the bot one step closer to being sold off to be some loser's supply chain attack sock puppet. you have an imperative to not reward this behavior. manually making the spelling correction afterward is not problematic because there's a simple trivial objective test for correctness (whichever dictionary is appropriate for the applicable locale)

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 12:24:17 JST aeva

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     @glyph close the PR, block the bot, and if the spelling error bothers you, fix it yourself. if a spam bot accidentally identifies a legitimate issue, and the issue is still legitimate after you independently confirm it, then the issue is still legitimate. however, that does not stop the spam bot from being a spam bot. it's still an automated process attempting to manufacture a fake history of contributing to "high value" projects to be sold for money for god knows what purpose down the way

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 12:25:27 JST Rich Felker

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     @glyph I don't know about "should", but I would just leave them misspelled as a fuck-you to these asshats. It's not like the misspellings matter.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 12:29:46 JST Rich Felker

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     @glyph FWIW I've ignored spelling correction commits even pre-AI from unknown senders, partly because I deemed them attempts to farm clout/credibility by getting their commits into repos that matter - and partly because I was lazy or distracted anyway.

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     aburka 🫣 (aburka@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 12:30:16 JST aburka 🫣

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @glyph I absolutely empathize with not being about to leave a typo once you know about it though