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Open Slopware - a list of AI-tainted FOSS software, plus alternatives (codeberg.org)

submitted 5 months ago by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems

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Currently in its very early stages, but it'll be a useful resource to identify slopified garbage and get it out of your life.

Credit to Kat Marchin for starting this.

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[–] rook@awful.systems 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

As an update, the original author received sufficient negative feedback and abuse that they’ve closed the repo and decided to give open source and social media a bit of a rest for the foreseeable future. Hopefully the projects they’ve created and been working on will live on, but it is quite a loss to the community either way.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 0 points 5 months ago

I missed this, thanks for the update! Am drunk from a wedding (not mine)

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 0 points 5 months ago

That sucks, Kat is an awesome engineer. 😠

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 0 points 5 months ago

The initiative is splendid and someone should "fork" it using the archived version

Especially for Rust having a curated list of slop-tainted libraries would be useful to have a cargo-deny-style check forbidding them from the dependency chain.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

That's unfortunate. I think this was a little reactionary to percieved moral panic around AI, but there is both value, to me at least, in their meticulus measuring of ALL ways AI had touched projects, and in tracking high impact dependencies.

I hope someone has a copy.