Oh yeah this is bound to be maintained

This is just dumb.

Not allowed:

• Translating other users' comments

So ableism? Or is this colonialism? Speak english or be excluded?

I get the activism, really, but taking it out on people who actually benefit from these technologies, in one of the few cases it's actually by design good at (language), is not the way.

For an analogy, your phone/computer/whatever you're using to read this, probably has some parts from dubious places, be it cobalt mines with terrible working environments or whatever. I don't see anyone making a fuss about that, and rejecting commits unless they're made from an ethically sourced machine

These LLMs were created by terrible companies, ignoring all human decency, I agree. But throwing them out now that they were trained, especially higher quality local models that don't have the sustained environment impact the datacenters have, is just throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

You can choose to boycott the companies training them, you can choose to exclude the contributions to code, but please don't attack the few useful tools that came out of this: machine translation, computer vision and text to speech all made leaps forward and made the internet so much more accessible due to these tools.