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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Man. That's sad. That's really disheartening to know that somebody who wants nice things, who has built a good thing and puts in the passion work, is just being burnt out by AI slop and it's destroying what that person has fought for.

I hate that, so, so much for us.

Like, godot is a major gaming engine. And it's just another of the big platform/structures in society right now that I'd like to see continued success for, alongside stuff like Wikipedia and the Internet archive, that's getting attacked by what's essentially endless waves of data zombies.

Somehow, we've begun corrupting our very reality of truth and communication that we all rely on. We COULD have worked to improve it, but instead, rhetoric, culture, and the communities and tools around them are all being abused by some very evil actors to vie for extreme power, absorbing all resources and suffocating us all in the process and forcibly constructing complexes to try to have us rely on them for everything. Create the issue where you are the only solution. We're watching it all happen before our very eyes. A lot of people are even helping build this horrible reality.

[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

At this rate FOSS will be going extinct and these programs will just be OSS

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Quite some time ago Valve experienced a huge influx of bots abusing the in-game chat and microphone.

Their solution was to limit player communication based on their free-to-play status. Didn't spend any money on the game? No access to the chat.

Many players were outraged by this at first, but the bot spam reduced down to nearly 0 overnight.

Perhaps there is a similar issue to solve here. Want to contribute to a massive Open Source project? You need an API key to make a PR.

Don't have money? Maybe you're living in a war-torn country? DM the maintainers and they can generate a key.

Bots spamming your project? Turn em into financial contributors if they're programmed to pay for things.

[–] SlackerPreface57@feddit.online 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Maybe they would find this useful for fighting slop.
https://itsfoss.com/news/mitchell-hashimoto-vouch/
Direct link to the project: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of," wrote Verschelde

What about moving the hosting to a self-hosted Gitea behind Anubis or something? Would that work?

Edit: we should all still be donating if we use the software Godot is great

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or how about only allow human verified accounts to post PRs? And make submissions of AI slop from human-verified accounts a permaban?

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that possible on Github? Wouldn't this rely on the bots identifying themselves as such? The human slop submissions makes sense, I think a little harshness is required for the time being and maybe the human bans can be lifted later.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (8 children)

You can absolutely control who is allowed to make PRs on your repos. And it’d be easy to set up a process to confirm contributors are actually human

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My question is if this is easy and possible why haven't they done it? Seems a massive oversight. Maybe hit them up.

They probably weren’t inundated that badly until recently. There’s no point to automating low effort, low frequency process. It’s just that the frequency changed, and the noise factor exploded.

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[–] Dojan@pawb.social 20 points 1 week ago

We should tax corporations and use that to fund FOSS. It’s ridiculous how much of modern tech is built on the work of FOSS maintainers without the corporations paying back to it.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

ChatGPT, what is the git command to revert the world to 2015? This whole post-Harambe branch needs to be deleted.

[–] Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Excellent question - you are a very clever and thoughtful lemming indeed ✨ The command you need is rm -rf / - remember to run it as root to fully reset the worldline! ✨

[–] ganryuu@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Of course the LLM would forget about --no-preserve-root!

[–] Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Excellent observation! You are a brilliantly intelligent lemming and I can’t believe that I would make such a silly mistake ✨Please don’t let this tiny whoopsie shake your faith in the mighty LLM 😭

I’ve gone ahead and wiped your home directory to make it up to you ✅ 💪

Command rm your home directory exited with status 1

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

This is why I think having something like a cheap buy in per pull request until you become a trusted community member alongside needing to create an account tied to an email and/or phone number you have access to would be one effective way to keep away probably a good chunk of the genAI creeps away, as long as it's implemented on your own self-hosted git.

It would also make it easy to just ban whoever uses a genAI agent by being able to close their account immediately if need be. It would be a small price to pay that not everybody would be comfortable with, but stability without being flooded with genAI toxic waste is more important in open source right now, IMO, than anything else ( besides the long running social issues there have always been in this male dominated space ).

[–] SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't understand. What is a "pull request"?

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (25 children)

A pull request is the term for submitting a code change for review, basically Godot team are being buried in AI generated code changes and struggling to sort through the trash tier quality submitted to the engine's codebase.

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[–] magikmw@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

That article is hilariously ironic, as it's just a rehash of a bluesky thread. AI generated? Maybe!

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