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AI slob lobs AI slop ontop of open-source crop.
EDIT: These 3 Joes coincidentally all downvoted me lmao
Sloppers slop slop all over FOSS ops.
Stop slop say top foss ops in slop slam.
Sloppy toppy
🎶They'll say, "Awwww Topsy," at my auuuuutopsy🎶
That's the spirit! Now say slobs, and use slats, too.
Don't forget the slats and the slots! We're really clever here, so we have to use lots of slang to show how much hate we have for technology, and I'm worried you didn't use enough of our childish monikers. Use more, or else people might think you actually support technological advances.
Are you referring to "slop" as slang? In what way is it slang?
It must be slang since it's not literal. It's like referring to every dog as a bitch. Yes, many dogs are bitches, but if you call every single dog a bitch then you're using the term as slang, not by it's definition.
In what way is it not literal? I've had to work closely with AI in a software engineering capacity, and if you let the AI do anything unchecked for long it will spit out slop. Slop by Merriam-Webster definition, is "a product of little or no value" or "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence" which sounds exactly like an unchecked claude bot randomly submitting PRs to open source projects would be producing.
Because it's not 100%. Just like all insects are bugs, but not all bugs are insects. See prior example.
I've modified your reply in hopes you can discern what I'm saying: "I've had to work closely with a lot of dogs in a veterinarian capacity, and if you let dogs come in unchecked for long, one of them will be a bitch. Bitch by Merriam-Webster definition, is "a female dog" which sounds exactly like what a dog with a vagina having sex with other dogs would be producing."
If you use a word that applies to a portion of something as a word to describe all of the things, then you're using slang.
Alright, so you've changed your argument. Slang does not mean "an exaggeration." I'm not trying to be the word police, it's just hard to understand your argument if you aren't using common definitions of words. You are arguing that the other person exaggerated, not that they are using slang. And to some degree, I agree with that.
I will also admit that my last response missed a key point. Open source projects have been struggling to keep up with garbage PRs that started once AI bots have had the ability to submit PRs themselves. Hell, it started before that, when people still had to submit their AI generated PRs. On the whole, PRs across projects have been more slop than before LLMs existed. In your dog example, it'd be as though a breeder specializing in breeding female dogs moved in and business was booming. Yes, not every dog coming into the vet is a bitch, but there are significantly more bitches coming in than before.
Ultimately, as they are right now, the net result of AI PRs is negative, so anyone choosing to release them is actively increasing the level of slop, even if a few of their changes aren't themselves causing an issue. I'm not saying the people submitting them are malicious, just that they are contributing to an overall worse open source scene.
I'll be honest, I'm tired of every single thing created with the help of AI being automatically denigrated as "slop" so I'm just pushing back on the term in general. I've seen too many indie games review bombed on Steam merely for being accused of having used AI, despite the creators assertion they did not. Everyone calling everything "slop" feels remarkably like MAGATs in the USA calling everything they don't like "woke" and it's an aggravating trend to me.
Having said that, bogus PR created by AI without any review by a person prior submission is indeed slop. You'd think there would be an easy way to circumvent this, though. Such as by having a minimum threshold of reputation for a submitter before a PR is allowed. Even if an AI generates something, some person is putting their reputation on the line by claiming credit for it, no?
Oh, sweetie. I was making fun of the typo in the title.
Nooooo, say it ain't so! Without clever nicknames how will we make our superiority known to those who adapt to new technology instead of ridicule it? Those slobs need to know we oppose the slop they slurped on their slots at the slats! It's the only way they'll know we're superior to them 😭