Why do people do that? Is it fun or something? I've been using AI a lot lately, but ONLY on my personal projects. I've never submitted a single PR to any project with AI. It just feels wrong to be honest.
Probably different reasons to do so. One reason I can imagine is, some users of Ai submitting slop genuinely think they are helping and don't know how bad the situation is.
Almost certainly not. All you would really need to do to stop this is limit who can submit pull requests to verified devs. Things go back to the way they were during the clunkier, before times when everyone used Subversion, when there were more hoops to jump through to contribute code. Make it so you need an existing contributor to "mentor" first-time contributors (making sure they aren't an AI, are writing competent code that follows project standards, etc.) before giving access to submit dozens of pull requests.
Need some way to sort contributors by "trust", e.g. if their PRs have been accepted before, if their account has existed before GenAI was invented, etc
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DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 102d
Why do people do that? Is it fun or something? I've been using AI a lot lately, but ONLY on my personal projects. I've never submitted a single PR to any project with AI. It just feels wrong to be honest.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 101d
Probably different reasons to do so. One reason I can imagine is, some users of Ai submitting slop genuinely think they are helping and don't know how bad the situation is.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 101d
Or just wanting to have a bunch of PR's in their portfolio
Anon518@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 101d
They can't code but want a feature/fix implemented and the dev team is limited?
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 102d
Unpopular opinion: RPCS3 is the best Playstation 3 emulator.
Squizzy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 101d
Isnt that the very popular opinion?
deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de · 6 pts · 101d
... Are there others?
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 101d
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PlayStation_3_emulators Yes, such as ChonkyStation3 and aps3e.
artyom@piefed.social · 1 pts · 102d
Not to be dramatic but, is this the end of open source? Or at least the open contribution systems? I feel like I see this story every day now...
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 102d
Almost certainly not. All you would really need to do to stop this is limit who can submit pull requests to verified devs. Things go back to the way they were during the clunkier, before times when everyone used Subversion, when there were more hoops to jump through to contribute code. Make it so you need an existing contributor to "mentor" first-time contributors (making sure they aren't an AI, are writing competent code that follows project standards, etc.) before giving access to submit dozens of pull requests.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 102d
We really need a stronger mentorship culture in general
artyom@piefed.social · 4 pts · 102d
That seems like it would greatly limit the number of contributors, and especially over time, since you'd never have any new ones.
chromodynamic@piefed.social · 3 pts · 102d
Need some way to sort contributors by "trust", e.g. if their PRs have been accepted before, if their account has existed before GenAI was invented, etc
Corngood@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 102d
It should be possible to use a distributed web of trust for this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
artyom@piefed.social · 1 pts · 102d
So no one new is allowed to contribute?