I had a report for AI slop today. 1m LOC in 3 months. How do you even modify and distribute that? I do not think we had a rule against it.

IMHO if we allow, the community gets drowned out by AI vomit and it is harder to see handcrafted loved projects that are easy to modify and distribute.

My mind is to ban it to preserve open source.

Are folk in agreememt with this line? Would love to hear your thoughts.

  • kevincox@lemmy.mlM
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    1 day ago

    usually it is pretty obvious when there is one developer and the README is written in LLM voice and the project is a few weeks or days old

    Yes, the problem comes when you enter the grey area. Maybe the README is at least mostly written by hand and the project has two developers.

    wouldn’t stop people from promoting others’ slop

    I’m not too worried about this to be honest. If someone found someone else’s slop useful and is promoting it of their own volition (not paid, bot, requested, …) then I think having these submitted occasionally isn’t much harm.

    promoting their own while pretending it isn’t.

    Yes, this is a risk. I think in most cases it is pretty obvious but a rule won’t stop sneaky people. I still feel that I would be happy to start here and see how it goes.

    imo that should be deleted; what do you think?

    I’m on the fence. It is open source and there is a bit of discussion and upvotes seem deliberate. This user has also contributed to the community in the past and while often around the topics of this project has been discussing in very general ways and has found the interest of others. I don’t think this post is a huge boon to the community but I don’t think it is very harmful and not against the rules so I would be inclined to leave it. I think I would consider this one of their few allowed self-promotion posts and expect no more (assuming we adopted a rule like that).

    But I think there are problems with upvotes. Most notably that I suspect the majority of people upvote “interesting” things from their home feed without considering what community it is in. That being said low-effort AI generated projects often don’t get very much “interest” as long as the user reads past the title.