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Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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A user asked on the official Lutris GitHub two weeks ago "is lutris slop now" and noted an increasing amount of "LLM generated commits". To which the Lutris creator replied:

It's only slop if you don't know what you're doing and/or are using low quality tools. But I have over 30 years of programming experience and use the best tool currently available. It was tremendously helpful in helping me catch up with everything I wasn't able to do last year because of health issues / depression.

There are massive issues with AI tech, but those are caused by our current capitalist culture, not the tools themselves. In many ways, it couldn't have been implemented in a worse way but it was AI that bought all the RAM, it was OpenAI. It was not AI that stole copyrighted content, it was Facebook. It wasn't AI that laid off thousands of employees, it's deluded executives who don't understand that this tool is an augmentation, not a replacement for humans.

I'm not a big fan of having to pay a monthly sub to Anthropic, I don't like depending on cloud services. But a few months ago (and I was pretty much at my lowest back then, barely able to do anything), I realized that this stuff was starting to do a competent job and was very valuable. And at least I'm not paying Google, Facebook, OpenAI or some company that cooperates with the US army.

Anyway, I was suspecting that this "issue" might come up so I've removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what's generated and what is not. Whether or not I use Claude is not going to change society, this requires changes at a deeper level, and we all know that nothing is going to improve with the current US administration.

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

While I may not agree that letting AI write the code is a good idea, the complaints are dumber. It's open source. Just fork it if you have a problem with it.

Trying to hide it is shitty and immature, though. Even more reason to just fork it. They are proving they don't have the maturity or transparency needed to run a project like that.

[–] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I hear this argument a lot about many things but how is "just fork it" the answer? It's not like just anyone can fork any project and continue developing it. The alternative would be forking it and consider it final version or what?

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

But if it's your project and you build the software for yourself, then why should he do what someone else wants?

The just fork it argument is valid as the source is open, there are several projects born from forks. Specifically for game/wine managers there are other options...

Regardless of the slop, I'm grateful to the developers and maintainers that take the time to share their work.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It’s not like just anyone can fork any project and continue developing it.

Why not? Happens all the time.

I hear this argument a lot about many things

Perhaps there's a reason you hear it so often about so many things?

This same principle also applies to the fediverse. An instance makes policy decisions that you don't agree with? That's okay, you can always host your own instance and make your own policies.

[–] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well sure, software gets forked and continued all the time, but there's quite a stark difference between just using open source software or actively maintain it. Not everyone is a software developer, so I still don't see why "just fork it" is the answer. Those who have the capabilities probably already thought of it no?

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

software gets forked and continued all the time

If you understand that this is true, then I don't really understand your argument. If this happens all the time for other software, then why won't it for Lutris? You're just saying that people who are not software developers cannot develop software? Okay... yeah.

Those people are already completely dependent on software developers and their choices for all of the software they use, whether closed or open source, anyway.

[–] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not providing any argument, I'm just asking.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Okay, so yeah if you're not a software developer, then forking it and developing the software is not an option for you. Your only option is to simply continue waiting for all of the software you use to be created by other people and handed to you, like you do already.