Those words were definitely written through gritted teeth, but it seems to me he's being very literal. The second point in particular is exactly what the anti-AI-feature people seem to be asking for (and they are reasonable for asking for it).
The issue here is the existence of a terminal feature that can send your commands to a 3rd party server.
It could have no AI whatsoever; it is reasonable to not want this in an app that you might paste secret keys into.
Do the people who don’t like this feature have the same standards for ever app they use? Probably not, they’re probably being a little hyperbolic, but it sounds like a reasonable request.
That's called SSH.
With not many more characters than are needed for an API key, I could write a script in the very terminal provided by iTerm2 that sends all my commands to a 3rd party server!
are they? their position is basically that they don't trust iterm2 to work properly, but only in regard to this specific setting.
if you don't trust iterm2 to work, don't use it. if you do trust it to work, you should be able to trust that the ai feature that's off by default won't magically turn itself on.
The technology isn't the problem; It's the meatbags weaponizing it in the name of a quick buck who are the problem.
Before this recent flare-up in pro/anti-AI tribalism, I have not regularly been demanded to justify my distrust of a corporation. Suddenly I feel I am demanded to justify my lack of faith in corporations who happen to have some involvement in AI. I shouldn't have to say anything beyond simply gesticulating vaguely in the direction of end-stage capitalism; The problems should be readily apparent.
People aren't demanding you anything. You are.
My point is that I believe the reason people are still repulsed by it to such a high degree is not because they all have some irrational deep-seated hatred of the AI technology, but that they are repulsed by the idea of even accidentally engaging with the OpenAI corporation (who just announced a partnership with News Corp of all things...); They are terrified of some situation in the future where someone comes along with code or packet traces and says "Hey, look at this, OpenAI has all your data anyway, and there's nothing you can do about it but seethe and cope; sucks to be you!"
and this is not a reasonable complaint, or a justifiable reason to demand the removal of features. if you have an emotional reaction to the existence of openAI, that's an issue for you to address yourself, not a reason to demand that other people make changes to free apps you've decided use.
Then don't use the feature?