Hey ! I hope you’re all doing well :) !

I did my first real promotion post for the project yesterday, over on the open source community on Lemmy:

https://lemmy.zip/post/72602770

Felt good to finally put it out there, first time it goes somewhere other than our own corner. Then I read the first comment, and it was about the AI :p

And honestly, this is a good moment to talk about it with you all, instead of only having it written down in a statement somewhere.

One thing I keep coming back to, and I mean it as a real question, is why this topic takes up so much room for some people. My feeling is that it’s more of a US thing, but maybe that’s just my European view. The numbers sort of go that way: Gallup surveyed 37 countries, and 68% of daily AI users in the US say AI worries them, while in 34 of those 37 countries positive feelings about AI are more common than negative ones.

https://defendintelligence.com/news/news-l-ia-inquiete-68-de-ses-usagers-quotidiens-americains-selon-gallup-bac2c087

Where I am, the mood I see is more “let’s learn the tool, understand what it actually does, then decide”. And I’m lucky, I have a calm life and work that leaves me time to dig into the things I care about, so I can approach it that way. Not everyone has that.

So I’d really like to hear it from you:

• What do you actually think about AI in TypeType?

• Does the transparency statement answer your questions, or is something missing?

• If you’re in the US, or anywhere else, is the anxiety that strong where you live? What’s behind it?

• If you use the app, do you care how the code was written, or only that it works and stays maintained?

I read everything, and I’d much rather have this conversation here with you than in someone else’s comments ;p

Thanks for being here :) !