[jonathrg]

I have no reason to trust that the fork itself is competently maintained when the author did not even bother to write the announcement.

[bigiain]

The author is Chinese and not a native English speaker. I will happily give them a pass on using GenAI to "write the announcement".

[surgical_fire]

I'm generally fully in agreement that AI writing is bad.

But this is one of the few cases where it might be acceptable.

Author is not a native speaker; in an announcement that a known project is being forked for maintenance the occasional odd phrasing and possible errors in grammar could sound unprofessional.

I wonder if in such cases a better use of AI would be to try to write it yourself and just ask a LLM to revise instead? Maybe with some directive to "just point out errors in syntax and grammar, and factual mistakes. No suggestions on style"?