AI ferrets take over JOSM

[clay_c (Clay Smalley)]

@UW_Amy_Bordenave

I have been planning to update some of our documentation to use JOSM and to briefly introduce JOSM to some newly onboarded external project leads in a business meeting this week but there’s now 0% chance of that happening when inappropriate images like this are what they’d see on first launch - it’s incredibly unprofessional and I just can’t justify it. (Not to mention that I personally feel uncomfortable seeing these images, which I definitely do.)

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Will I ever recommend JOSM to anyone in a context that is even remotely business-related? No, and I cannot do so in the future even if these images are no longer shown going forward, without some kind of formal community address with a sincere apology demonstrating an understanding of what went wrong here and a guarantee of nothing like this happening again. Which, given the dismissive replies on the relevant tickets and the ongoing active disregard for what is clearly a broad community consensus, seems like that’s not going to happen.

My situation is similar. I use JOSM at work, and I can no longer recommend it to my clients or coworkers without risking my professional reputation. When I’m writing documentation, I need my OSM editing software to be completely free of nudity, whether full or partial, human or anthropomorphic, hand-drawn or AI-generated.

@stoecker

At the time now nothing anyone of you can say will change anything as I wont see it. The images will be displayed until the pre-planned end somewhere mid march.

I guess we’ll never get any confirmation that JOSM will be free of nudity going forward. Bummer!