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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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[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

define slop. it means different things to different people.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I thought it was "messy, generated code with little cohesion and only barely functional", but really it's the cohesion part.

[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

messy, generated code with little cohesion and only barely functional

Okay, you've described my code. Now what about the AI?

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

thats mine too

[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Oh man don't look at some of my earlier repos while I was learning then.