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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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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 week ago

I strongly disagree with this. The reality is that using LLMs to build things is becoming increasingly more common. And just because something is built using LLMs doesn't automatically make it slop or useless. There are plenty of genuinely useful open source projects built with these tools, and just because you're personally opposed to that is not a reason to ban them outright.

This is why we have the voting system on Lemmy as well. If people post slop whether it's human or LLM assisted, then it can get downvoted naturally. I also see zero evidence of this community drowning in any sort of slop.

[–] Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 week ago

My mind is to ban it to preserve open source.

You will be preserving it alright, but not progressing it in anyway; A blanket ban wont really solve anything, a more sophisticated system would be a pinned comment warning of AI use, which you should eventually rescind if the author proves they have not abandoned the project when their tokens ran out

I would support the deletion of any post about any project that is not on the "no ai list" or "slop free" lists

[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip -4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If there's ever a question that starts with "should we ban AI", I vote yes. Delete the post and ban/block the user, first offense, no negotiation. Period.

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