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Ban AI Slop? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] europeancricket@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It would be advisable to define AI slop first. The term ranges from the Linux kernel to vibe coded stuff where the "dev" hasn't even looked at the code these days.