Before hitting submit I'd worry I've made a silly mistake which would make me look a fool and waste their time.
Do they think the AI written code Just Works (TM)? Do they feel so detached from that code that they don't feel embarrassment when it's shit? It's like calling yourself a fictional story writer and writing "written by (your name)" on the cover when you didn't write it, and it's nonsense.
Damn, Godot too? I know Curl had to discontinue their bug bounties over the absolutely tidal volume of AI slop reports… Open source wasn’t ever perfect, but whatever cracks in there were are being blown a mile wide by these goddamn slop factories.
I think moving off of GitHub to their own forge would be a good first step to reduce this spam.
It's everywhere. I was just trying to find some information on starting seeds for the garden this year and I was met with AI article after AI article just making shit up. One even had a "picture" of someone planting some seeds and their hand was merged into the ceramic flower pot.
The AI fire hose is destroying the internet.
This was honestly my biggest fear for a lot of FOSS applications.
Not necessarily in a malicious way (although there's certainly that happening as well). I think there's a lot of users who want to contribute, but don't know how to code, and suddenly think...hey...this is great! I can help out now!
Well meaning slop is still slop.
This is big tech trying to kill FOSS.
Look. I have no problems if you want to use AI to make shit code for your own bullshit. Have at it.
Don't submit that shit to open Source projects.
You want to use it? Use it for your own shit. The rest of us didn't ask for this. I'm really hoping the AI bubble bursts in a big way very soon. Microsoft is going to need a bail out, openai is fucking doomed, and z/Twitter/grok could go either way honestly.
Who in their right fucking mind looks at the costs of running an AI datacenter, and the fact that it's more economically feasible to buy a fucking nuclear power plant to run it all, and then say, yea, this is reasonable.
The C-whatever-O's are all taking crazy pills.
Get that code off of slophub and move it to Codeberg.
AI crowd trying hard to find uses for AI
So I guess it is time to switch to a different style of FOSS development ?
The cathedral style, which is utilized by Fossil, basically in order to contribute you'll have to be manually included into the group. It's a high-trust environment where devs know each other on a 1st-name basis.
Oh BTW, Fossil is a fully-fledged alternative to Git & Github. It has:
All in One binary
Godot is also weighing the possibility of moving the project to another platform where there might be less incentive for users to "farm" legitimacy as a software developer with AI-generated code contributions.
Aahhh, I see the issue know.
That’s the incentive to just skirt the rules of whatever their submission policy is.
Why people try to contribute even if they don't work on their codes? Ai slop not helping at all.
Couldn’t you just set up actual AI/LLM verification questions, like “how many r’s in strawberry?”
Or even just have an AI / Manual contribution divide. Wouldn’t stop everything 100% but might help the clean-up process better
I am a game developer and a web developer and I use AI sometimes just to make it write template code for me so that I can make the boilerplate faster. For the rest of the code, AI is soooo dumb it's basically impossible to make something that works!
Codeberg Anubis when?
just deny PRs that are obvious bots and ban them from ever contributing.
even better if you're running your own git instance and can outright ban IP ranges of known AI shitlords.
A similar problem is happening in submissions to science journals.
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