XLE comments on What will happen if the Linux kernel starts having AI generated code in it?

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Code is code supposedly, but choosing to pursue it with AI is a real danger: how much AI slop will be presented to developers by morons or trolls?

Here's 49 examples of worthless AI slop in just one project that wasted developer time. All of them supposedly fix security bugs.

I can't think of a faster way to demoralize developers than through a torrent of AI-powerws slop spam, and considering Debian lost its entire data protection team, this seems like the worst possible time to make circumstances worse.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's correct. I went with OP's original question, what happens after it happened... Not sure what OP meant, they're nowhere in the comments... Maybe they're a bot as well, and we're subject to the very same thing we're talking about, right now...

But sure. All the fabricated pull requests, issue reports etc are massively problematic. We got quite some bot activity. Then we also need to protect our servers and platforms from their crawlers who just DDOS everyone... Documentation went down the drain, StackOverflow, Reddit... The industry is trying to get rid of entry level programmer positions, so you'll have a bad time entering the job market as any programmer... We're just drowned in all that stuff. Supply chains also get affected by AI, people need to choose between using existing libraries, licensing, money... Or replacing it with something the AI generated, and we get structural challenges in all kinds of projects...

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