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the Awful Systems list of LLM-tainted software needs a name (awful.systems)
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Awful Systems will be putting up and maintaining a list of open source software that is tainted with LLM code, inspired by a previous project.

We have already had many helpful suggestions for additional homework from concerned moderates, and we thank Dr King for his advice on concerned moderates. I'm sure commenters on Masto will add many more homework suggestions, though nobody asked. We would expect better of Awful Systems commenters than to do that here.

What we really need is a new name that's anywhere near as good as OpenSlopWare. Those suggestions, we would most welcome. Anyone got ideas that aren't actually profane? PromptFuckerCode(tm) is right out.

masto version: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115884361351176549

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[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
  • .slopignore
  • uSlop Origin
  • SlopwareForge
  • Microslop Copilot 364
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

Slopignore is very good, two votes

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

trashTable

Hyprbland

NOmarchy

Plug-N-Plague

Stainwork

Curbit

Trustless

OpenLlameass (ass is in the bible right?)

LibreLosers

rm -mfers

OpenGarbage (rhymes with farage)

GarbageCollection

Sloptimists

ClodCode

Note: someone linked to this on Reddit, so I'll add that it's always a good security play to exclude code that's maintained by dingdongs.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago

Curbit

BANNED, BANNED FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS

[–] macroplastic@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Plug-N-Plague" is great. "ClodCode" too but I fear that tying a title to a product name will inevitably become outdated when they drop the Claude brand

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
  • OpenSlopWatch
  • the Human Software Project
  • Slopware Detector
  • Rossum's Universal Sloppums
  • the Reliable Software Initiative
[–] macroplastic@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

I like "The Human Software Project" for being a rare non-pejorative submission.

I do think that it makes more sense for the inverse mission (promoting slop-free software rather than shaming slopware), though.

[–] macroplastic@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)
  • tAInted
  • Promptware
  • Vibeless
  • SlopHub / SlopLab
  • SlopForged
  • LibreSlopware /s
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

the taint

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

Z-taint

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

One vote for SlopHub

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

#exclude

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Two ideas to help with inspiration:

  • So functionally, we are talking about a slop repository. That brings to mind a trough or a latrine. Slopository kind of works because it also sounds like "suppository", and brings to mind a certain gaffe by former prime minister of Australia.
  • The Germans have a style of toilet known as the "Flachspüler", which has a shelf for viewing your poop before flushing it, so maybe something based on that or a nickname for it. I've seen "poop shelf" and "observation deck", but maybe there are others.

Otherwise, here are some low-effort names with a common theme:

  • Shithub/ShitBucket
  • Perfarce
  • Hurr-Durr-curial
[–] Hexarei@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

ShitBucket is quite funny

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

used to call it ShitFuckit last time I worked a lot with Atlassian stack

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 3 points 2 weeks ago

Suppository seems fine, because you can stick it right up your ass.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

My immediate correlation is cargo deny, which is a tool for Rust devs to assert some control over the dependency supply chain.

So maybe "Supply denAI list"?

As for "concerned moderates", a useful thing to maybe convince people who are on the fence but are not dipshits that this is a real issue would be to make the supply chain framing clear – relying on slopware is bad not only for the obvious ethical reasons, but also do you really want to depend on a lib that accepts slop PRs? Really???

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm thinking "take something with a word in it that rhymes with slop" like "Slopic Thunder" or "A Slop in the Bucket"

but also i am an idiot and have bad taste

[–] macroplastic@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Slop Gun

Mary Sloppins

Beverly Hills Slop

RoboSlop

Little Slop of Horrors

Cowboy BeSlop

Unsloppable

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

Little Slop of Horrors is a good one

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

cream of the slop

sloptart (accidentally profane maybe)

that's all i got

edit: actually the first one might be profane too

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago
  • AI Naughty List
  • AI Slop Watch
  • AAI = Avoid AI Index = Anti AI = Another AntiAI Index

Difficult difficult, too jet-lagged.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

In keeping with the emphasis on Open Source, I thought of that old adage about not keeping one's mind too open. I feel like there's got to be a good bit somewhere in there about projects who's Brain Fell Out. The BFO List or something of that nature maybe?

Alternatively, something about vibe coding? Vibe-based Open Software? Source Open, Bad Vibes?

Vibe-Based. Now Eschews Trust?

Junk Added Vibe Awareness?

Cunts++?

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't see why it can't all be microslop. Give the ol MS a good legacy

[–] arbitraryidentifier@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

vibe raters

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

vibroslop foss

It's got it all: vibe, bro, slop

[–] nfultz@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

rokos basi-list

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

Either Clanker Watch or Clankerware - either would work well IMO.

[–] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

free as in slop

the open slop initiative

mass hallucinations

biosphere watch

reference will be lost to anyone not in specifically the German antifascist milieu, but: AntiFAI Recherche AG.
*AntiFAI stands for "Anti Free-software 'AI'"

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

Also, where can we contribute to the list?

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

cloptoilet? hot slops? "The list of untrustworthy dependencies"?