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PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 developers battling "AI slop code pull requests" (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Valuy@lemmy.zip to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Why do people do that? Is it fun or something? I've been using AI a lot lately, but ONLY on my personal projects. I've never submitted a single PR to any project with AI. It just feels wrong to be honest.

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Probably different reasons to do so. One reason I can imagine is, some users of Ai submitting slop genuinely think they are helping and don't know how bad the situation is.

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 months ago

Or just wanting to have a bunch of PR's in their portfolio

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[–] Anon518@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

They can't code but want a feature/fix implemented and the dev team is limited?

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