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Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measure Discussion & Question Moderation Big tech (www.theregister.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/72942555

Meanwhile on reddit.

Honestly kind of sounds like lemmy.world mods tho...

edit ahaha lemmy.world's fediverse community locked discussion about this, of course they did..

To get a project featured on the subreddit, developers now need to show it has been actively maintained for at least a year, has an established community, and has at least three contributors, give or take. Student projects such as note-taking apps and PDF viewers aren't welcome either, and developers can no longer use the subreddit to find people willing to help maintain their software.

That creates a chicken-and-egg problem for independent developers, who apparently need an established community before they can use an open source forum to find one. Even projects with no AI involvement could fall foul of the rules. One Reddit user pointed out that their nine-year-old project, which has more than 300 GitHub stars and dozens of resolved issues, would no longer qualify because they're its sole contributor.

The moderator also imposed a minimum Reddit account age of one year and requires significant prior contributions. Anyone who attempts to post and then contacts the moderators seeking an exception risks being permanently banned and muted.

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[โ€“] [S] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

The idea that because you have self-hosted before it makes you somehow qualified to speak about this is just you sitting on a high horse and throwing anecdotes at me condescendingly, it means nothing.

There is no credible evidence self-hosted or corporate AI delivers on any of its promises, it is just a woodchipper to obliterate our humanity in so we can spit out bloody chunks and point at them and say "wow, almost like the real thing!".

AI is a snake eating itself/a massive theft of the commons in an attempt to privatize it, and once the public's shared wealth of open information has been strip mined and then drowned in AI submitted crap to push things that direction, all of this collapses into complete and utter junk.

If we decide to actually go through with this dumb shit and get to that point I will never stop raising the point that this was all a self-defeating choice we made not any sort of "inevitable" new powerful technology we all had to bow down to and become dependent on.

If we choose AI as the "inevitable" future we have only become religious in a new way that limits our ability to innovate and create new technologies that actually work.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 week ago

    The idea that because you have self-hosted before it makes you somehow qualified to speak about this is just you sitting on a high horse and throwing anecdotes at me condescendingly, it means nothing.

    We can debate about the level of qualification all day long. But I'll tell you one thing, it makes me more qualified than someone who hasn't. Which was the point you're trying to deflect from. And talk about condescending. Either way I'm not here to troll or caused drama. I gave my two cents and you can get back to your Purity or whatever I'm out. Can't have a reasonable discussion with someone who behaves like this.

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