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A Mac Software Shop Published a Six-Point 'We Never Use AI. For Anything' Policy and Front-Paged Within Three Hours
Corkmac's stance page commits to complete avoidance of AI in its products and process, listing six objections: subsidy-driven dependency risk when investors demand returns, LLMs as 'fancy autocorrect' that hallucinate by construction, the gap between sounding knowledgeable and being accountable, data center water and land use, AI infrastructure as future surveillance capacity, and 'AI' as an imprecise umbrella term. The page carries no publication date or author name. It is a marketing position as much as an engineering one, which is itself the signal worth noting: abstaining is now a product differentiator small vendors advertise.
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