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I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots (glama.ai)

submitted 3 months ago by vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Relevant since we started outright rejecting agent-made PRs in awesome-selfhosted [1] and issuing bans for it. Some PRs made in good faith could probably get caught in the net, but it's currently the only decent tradeoff we could make to absorb the massive influx of (bad) contributions. >99.9% of them are invalid for other reasons anyway. Maybe a good solution will emerge over time.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

"Looking forward to the article!"
"Happy to be included in the article!"

Not sure whether even those responses were done with the ai or just the sloppers' incapacity of thought showing through, being happy to be labeled as "part of the problem"

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

just dont make this too obvious to the companies that do this if its possible, otherwise they will try to hide their bots better.

Also, is there a "tos" for open source projects, kind of like what is acceptable behavior and what is not? Directly calling out ai generated "contributions" as malicious and unwanted would at least remove the facade from them as non hostile.

Like, if someone trys to add malicious code to the project, that is definitely gainst some kind of agreement, no? So add slop to it too.

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wander if you could add a long list of steps that need to be done, so that all the does it build and work stuff is covered?

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[+] TheHolm@aussie.zone -28 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This is one good article. I guess humans are now mostly redundant in open source. Bots can do everything themself, write code, submit PR, merge them and even blog about it. Time to book a place for myself in a graveyard.

[–] parody@lemmings.world 3 points 3 months ago

Time for QA

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're probably exaggerating sarcastically?

[–] TheHolm@aussie.zone 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but in each joke there is bit of truth. Open Source have to change. Open Source code written by LLMs is still open source, but it drastically different from current one.
Instead of spending time to "scratch the itch and help others in the process" - now people should give money to corps to use LLM to to do same.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I have no idea what you're on about. But this

Open Source have to change.

sounds a bit too opinionated to me, with nothing to back it up. In other words: utter BS.

[–] TheHolm@aussie.zone 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Then read my post again. Contributing and writing opens source is no longer about how much time one willing to spend on it, it is about how much money someone willing to spend on LLMs which will write code. And all these money will go to AI overlords.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 3 months ago

You seem to be criticizing this yet you are exaggerating the situation in a manner that seems to be praising it.

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