The Godot Engine team recently posted about more issues with AI slop, including various pull requests that have become a big drain on resources.

The 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.

  • Artisian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    3 hours ago

    I do not think the bubble popping will fix this.

    1. people are incentivized to make plausible looking submissions regularly for jobs. The bubble popping will not remove the need for jobs or metrics.
    2. the AI tools required to make OK submissions are already developed, with open source alternatives and many potential places they can be hosted. I think hosting will get cheaper if the bubble pops, as all those data centers come online and look to sell compute.
    • Artisian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      We need some combination of:

      • Different incentives for contributors; companies stop caring about regular code contributions.
      • Strict submission criteria that’s very cheap to enforce.

      These are human problems, but annoying difficult ones.