The Apology Is the New “Ship It”: How AI-Assisted Developers Are Weaponizing Public Mea Culpas
The real failure isn’t that AI reproduced an existing project. It’s that the developer chose to ship a clone as original, then used a public apology as the final step in the workflow. The mea culpa has become a cheap ethical release valve—a routine part of AI-assisted production that lets creators bypass real accountability.