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We've been getting a lot of AI coded submissions recently, as well as lots of reports asking to remove them.

Should we remove these posts, or not?

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[–] vas@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
  • I think AI disclosure has to be a hard rule. Not done properly? Remove.
  • I think there has to be a threshold of when to allow, otherwise we'll get (and are already) overwhelmed. For example, be X months old is an easy check that would filter out low-effort posting.

Besides these basic rules that I think are absolutely mandatory, I'm not sure how far to go. I'd want to say that the project needs to explain Free Software affinity or explain why it's posted on lemmy or something like that... But it's so easy to fake it with, the irony of it, AI texts.

In conclusion,

  • Decision-wise, I wouldn't mind if the resolution is the full removal on AI-driven projects.
  • Decision-wise, I would absolutely request a hard-ban if the lemmy text is AI-written.
  • Decision-wise, I could accept if the rule is to accept some small sliver of AI posts that would come our way otherwise. Maybe some projects where AI assists in writing code, but does not replace the programmer. Maybe that is OK, if the project otherwise is "relevant to the open source ideology" (Rule 1 of this community).

EDIT: Also, something to think about is... community, not just code. For community health, it might be better to remove AI-driven projects entirely. Because we aren't just about code. We're also about continuing to exist long-term.

EDIT 2: I think codeberg actually did it better than my improvised thinking. I'd go with codeberg's rules: https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html