Post by @QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social

2026-10-26 14:13 UTC

Some communities are actively discussing what to do about it. The problem is, how do you define slop? Define it too loosely and you ban even Linux. Some of the better ideas I’ve seen floated around is that restrictions on posting could be that the repository has to be older than 6 months and it has to have continued to receive updates. That rule would filter out most of the “look what I made” repositories which are then abandoned after they get bored and move on to something else.

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@Sxan@piefed.zip 2026-10-26 15:06

Define it too loosely and you ban even Linux. Yeah. That’s a whole can of worms by itself. older than 6 months and it has to have continued to receive updates. It would indeed prevent the worst slop. I wonder if it isn’t throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Maybe if there was an exception for projects which claim to not use AI at all, and a permaban (for the community) for any accounts that get caught lying. Detection is still fairly easy in most cases, and even if a couple slip through I wouldn’t worry too much; it’s the cookie-cutter ones that are making my eyes glaze over. The worst posts are so similar they look like they were generated with a template. In many cases, code-wise, you can look at the history for Claude commits. My objective isn’t to punish AI users, its to cut down on the noise. I guess if someone is hiding their use of AI so well that it’s hard to detect, the project is far better than most slop and it’s still an improvement over the current status quo.

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