Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions

Quoting: dpanterBan AI-generated everything.

This would be a fine idea if they knew what was AI-generated without taking the time to go through and figure it out. But apparently nobody's saying their stuff is AI-generated.

Quoting: mindedieBan is simple and simple things are practical.

“There is always an easy solution to every human problem–neat, plausible, and wrong.”

Quoting: elmapulone solution that i saw that WILL cause backslash... was to charge to submit an issue, and refund if the issue was legitimate.

that would limit how much the "ai bros" can flood the repo with bad submissions, and help pay the costs of reviewing the submissions

Now this could work.

Just great! to the ramageddon, now you have to add the slopmageddon... any other mageddon I am forgetting?🤣

We need a tickbox when submitting a PR affirming that no AI was used for writing this code, and if you're found to be in violation, you're banned from contributing to any open source projects* (first infraction - one month ban, second infraction - six month, third infraction - lifetime). Yes, I know people can create new accounts, but the whole reason they are doing it is "building reputation", colouring these green boxes and stuff like that, so it should be deterrent enough.

(*) it would probably be a good idea if the project maintainer hand a control on whether to use this setting and to what extent.

Quoting: KoopaJust great! to the ramageddon, now you have to add the slopmageddon... any other mageddon I am forgetting?🤣

We got mageddons coming out our ears these days.

Quoting: KimyrielleWell, if that's the best you can do to defend your knee-jerk "solution" to the problem, I am glad you don't have any say in the matter, so cooler heads than yours can look for one. *shrug*

It's not up to me to fix it, I presented an opinion for essentially triage to stop the immediate rapidly bleeding-to-death situation. You do understand it's a crisis, yes?

I don't have to defend my opinion to ban all AI-generated slop here or anywhere, you may take for granted that it extends to all professions, areas and industries. Slop is slop and detrimental to anything it touches. There are legit use cases for the technology, however rare. Slop is never acceptable.

I have the highest hopes Godot can find an actual solution since there seems to be little chance of escaping slopageddon. 😫

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: whizseHow matplotlib's attempt at moderating AI submissions went:
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

Oh brave new world, that has such LLMs in it!

I heard about this the other day, because Ars Technica then ran (and [removed](https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/) ) an article, which used AI which entirely made up quotes about it all.

Had heard about the matplotlib saga but not the deliciously ironic arstechnica fiasco that went along. Rotten cherry on top of the moldy cake.

Quoting: whizseHow matplotlib's attempt at moderating AI submissions went:
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

Oh brave new world, that has such LLMs in it!

Brodie Roberdson on youtube made a video on youtube about it. I could not stop laughing.

Quoting: Liam DaweI heard about this the other day, because Ars Technica then ran (and [removed](https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/) ) an article, which used AI which entirely made up quotes about it all.

I was talking to a professor and he told a funny story about AI. One of his sloppy students delivered a good paper on a subject. He was surprised and thought he may had misjudged him. Then he started to check the quotes... One of them put the student as co-autor on a paper published on the late 60's, together with a famous researcher. Of course the sloppy student was too lazy to proof read the ChatGPT work, and simply Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V it. The professor called the student as asked how was it to work with such renowned researcher...

I'm starting to see this same issue with Minigalaxy. Someone made a massive AI made PR and after going through it 3 times to review it, they figured out they were unable to fix it and closed it.

If you see ai slop long enough, you will learn to identify it immediately. Yes, it is still a time waster, but it is nowhere as bad as it looks at the first look. Creating slop commits and pull requests takes way longer than reading it for half minute and smashing ban button.

Quoting: vic-bayIf you see ai slop long enough, you will learn to identify it immediately. Yes, it is still a time waster, but it is nowhere as bad as it looks at the first look. Creating slop commits and pull requests takes way longer than reading it for half minute and smashing ban button.

That might be true, but Godot currently has nearly 5000 PRs awaiting review, and 50K closed PRs overall. I think that when you're dealing with those kind of numbers, it still adds up to a near-insurmountable problem.

still waiting for that legitimate use case the technology is sure to get. I mean this is supposed to be the next motor vehicle or whatever, right? there's gotta be something huge right around the corner. not like this was all a giant, unbelievable waste of time, money, life and resources for absolutely nothing of value. that's impossible. the people on wall street said otherwise. they're supposed to be smart, right?

Quoting: ScottCarammellstill waiting for that legitimate use case the technology is sure to get. I mean this is supposed to be the next motor vehicle or whatever, right? there's gotta be something huge right around the corner. not like this was all a giant, unbelievable waste of time, money, life and resources for absolutely nothing of value. that's impossible. the people on wall street said otherwise. they're supposed to be smart, right?

https://asm.org/articles/2025/august/ai-next-frontier-antibiotic-discovery

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: ScottCarammellstill waiting for that legitimate use case the technology is sure to get. I mean this is supposed to be the next motor vehicle or whatever, right? there's gotta be something huge right around the corner. not like this was all a giant, unbelievable waste of time, money, life and resources for absolutely nothing of value. that's impossible. the people on wall street said otherwise. they're supposed to be smart, right?

https://asm.org/articles/2025/august/ai-next-frontier-antibiotic-discovery

Oh man, please don't confuse AI, which is vital to this kind of research you've linked, to genAI, which what we're generally complaining about here in articles like this one (even though it's often just termed as AI).

That conflation of AI and genAI is often how the techbros will try to justify the ridiculous investment in this tech, even though medical research AI won't likely see a single penny from those investments, which are all focused on genAI pish.

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: ScottCarammellstill waiting for that legitimate use case the technology is sure to get. I mean this is supposed to be the next motor vehicle or whatever, right? there's gotta be something huge right around the corner. not like this was all a giant, unbelievable waste of time, money, life and resources for absolutely nothing of value. that's impossible. the people on wall street said otherwise. they're supposed to be smart, right?

https://asm.org/articles/2025/august/ai-next-frontier-antibiotic-discovery

Oh man, please don't confuse AI, which is vital to this kind of research you've linked, to genAI, which what we're generally complaining about here in articles like this one (even though it's often just termed as AI).

That conflation of AI and genAI is often how the techbros will try to justify the ridiculous investment in this tech, even though medical research AI won't likely see a single penny from those investments, which are all focused on genAI pish.

They literally say: "Researchers are also using generative AI to design "new-to-nature" antibiotic molecules from scratch."

Well okay, I guess, but that feels a bit pedantic? Did you read how they used genAI here? They designed their own ML model using medical data. Technically, okay, sure, that's genAI, fine. But it's hardly the kind of genAI that everyone is talking about and hating on. It's not plagiarising books, pirating material, talking kids into suicide or whatever.

It's probably also not quite the planet burning water hog either, because the data sets are so targeted.

Maybe you're right, and I'm the one being pedantic here, but I honestly don't feel like we should conflate these two things and thereby justify the car crash of genAI over-investment by pointing at fringe, targeted medical uses.