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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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[–] halm@leminal.space 46 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I for one would really appreciate just one single FLOSS community that flat out banned any and all "AI" contributed code instead of following the approach of others. Somebody have the spine to stand out, plz.

I'm not a developer, but I wanna be able to keep up with open source news without having to navigate a slippery slop(e) into clanker dominated territory.

[–] eremophila@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

Agreed, I really want to see this for linux distros and desktop environments, the list is far too small, and far too niche at present.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Zig language has a no AI contributions policy. That's for the language itself, but a lot of it's community have similar views.

Codeberg has a no AI policy for projects hosted on its servers, so anything hosted there should meet your requirements.

[–] halm@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago

I was talking about Lemmy communities, but yeah.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That restriction would rule out Linux. Would that be OK?

[–] eremophila@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

Linus snr suggested that someone should fork the kernel if they want no ai. Fingers crossed that it happens.

[–] halm@leminal.space 6 points 1 week ago

There are plenty of Linux communities already 🤷