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PayPalThe Godot Engine team recently posted about more issues with "AI slop", including various pull requests that have become a big drain on resources.
You've likely seen other projects talking about this across the net, because AI agents and people who use various generative AI tools are generating code and submitting it to lots of projects to pump up their numbers - often while having no clue what the code does and not even testing it. This is becoming a bigger problem as time goes on.
Writing on Bluesky a few days ago, the Director at game dev studio Hidden Folks wrote:
This led to a Bluesky thread from Godot Project Maintainer Rémi Verschelde, that mentions how "draining and demoralizing" it has become due to the influx of it and how they end up second guessing "every PR from new contributors".
There seems to be no easy answer here, someone or something somehow has to filter through the increasing noise of both people and bots just shovelling out AI generated code to various projects like Godot. One solution that Verschelde mentioned being suggested is using AI to fight AI which they said "seems horribly ironic" but they might have to eventually.
Even GitHub themselves are aware of the problematic situation, with a post from the GitHub Project Manager Camilla Moraes a few weeks ago saying they're exploring solutions to "the increasing volume of low-quality contributions that is creating significant operational challenges for maintainers".
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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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mr-victory a day ago
Quoting: scaineBut... again, this isn't what I'm talking about when I disparage genAI. From the article:I tried to find a short source as I recalled that something akin to GenAI was used in this specific discovery, instead of checking the content of the source. My bad.
PS: If I use at least 2 quotes or links, do I end up in the mod queue?
Quoting: mr-victoryIt's just any external link, or embedded picture, I believe. Sadly, quoting a post with a link in it will also trigger the queue.Quoting: scaineBut... again, this isn't what I'm talking about when I disparage genAI. From the article:I tried to find a short source as I recalled that something akin to GenAI was used in this specific discovery, instead of checking the content of the source. My bad.
PS: If I use at least 2 quotes or links, do I end up in the mod queue?
ScottCarammell 6 hours ago
Quoting: mr-victoryforgive me if two instances of in-house models making improvements in specific fields doesn't make me feel better about its primary use case being making cheap garbage that makes life worse, misinforming the public and stalking political dissidentsQuoting: 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?I'll drop another one: generative ai found an algorithm to multiply matrices faster
https://spectrum.ieee.org/matrix-multiplication-deepmind
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