"If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of," wrote Verschelde

What about moving the hosting to a self-hosted Gitea behind Anubis or something? Would that work?

Edit: we should all still be donating if we use the software Godot is great

ChatGPT, what is the git command to revert the world to 2015? This whole post-Harambe branch needs to be deleted.

Man. That's sad. That's really disheartening to know that somebody who wants nice things, who has built a good thing and puts in the passion work, is just being burnt out by AI slop and it's destroying what that person has fought for.

I hate that, so, so much for us.

Like, godot is a major gaming engine. And it's just another of the big platform/structures in society right now that I'd like to see continued success for, alongside stuff like Wikipedia and the Internet archive, that's getting attacked by what's essentially endless waves of data zombies.

Somehow, we've begun corrupting our very reality of truth and communication that we all rely on. We COULD have worked to improve it, but instead, rhetoric, culture, and the communities and tools around them are all being abused by some very evil actors to vie for extreme power, absorbing all resources and suffocating us all in the process and forcibly constructing complexes to try to have us rely on them for everything. Create the issue where you are the only solution. We're watching it all happen before our very eyes. A lot of people are even helping build this horrible reality.

This is why I think having something like a cheap buy in per pull request until you become a trusted community member alongside needing to create an account tied to an email and/or phone number you have access to would be one effective way to keep away probably a good chunk of the genAI creeps away, as long as it's implemented on your own self-hosted git.

It would also make it easy to just ban whoever uses a genAI agent by being able to close their account immediately if need be. It would be a small price to pay that not everybody would be comfortable with, but stability without being flooded with genAI toxic waste is more important in open source right now, IMO, than anything else ( besides the long running social issues there have always been in this male dominated space ).

I don't understand. What is a "pull request"?

Maybe they would find this useful for fighting slop.
https://itsfoss.com/news/mitchell-hashimoto-vouch/
Direct link to the project: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch

That article is hilariously ironic, as it's just a rehash of a bluesky thread. AI generated? Maybe!

I wonder what's going through a persons mind committing ai crap to a FOSS project.

Are they delusional? Purposeful doing it? ???