PlayStation3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask Contributors to Stop Submitting 'AI Slop' Pull Requests (kotaku.com)
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- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/0012211/playstation3-emulator-devs-politely-ask-contributors-to-stop-submitting-ai-slop-pull-requests
- Source link: https://kotaku.com/playstation-3-emulator-devs-politely-ask-that-people-stop-flooding-it-with-ai-code-pull-requests-2000694656
> Then they immediately proceeded to tell the AI-brain-rotted tech bros attempting to justify their vibe-coding nonsense to kick rocks in the replies, which is somewhat less civil but far more entertaining to read...
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> My favorite one was when someone asked how the team was certain they weren't rejecting human-written code, to which RPCS3 [2]replied : "You can't possibly handwrite the type of shit AI slop we have been seeing."
[1] https://kotaku.com/playstation-3-emulator-devs-politely-ask-that-people-stop-flooding-it-with-ai-code-pull-requests-2000694656
[2] https://x.com/rpcs3/status/2053287528627929517?s=20
AI Slop (Score:2)
Note they didn't ask people to stop submitted AI code. They asked people to stop submitting AI slop.
Presumably if the code produced is high quality, they will be willing to accept it.
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> Note they didn't ask people to stop submitted AI code. They asked people to stop submitting AI slop.
> Presumably if the code produced is high quality, they will be willing to accept it.
And that sounds pretty reasonable, TBH.
If the code is good, then we shouldn't care where it comes from.
Re: (Score:3)
If AI produced high quality outputs, people wouldn't complain about AI use, because there would be no way to tell things are produced by AI. They complain because they can tell, because it's largely garbage.
I have been working extensively through Claude Code, with usage paid by my job, and if you want anything mildly serious that isn't just webapp slop reinventing the same onboarding page over and over, it it takes poring over pretty much every single thing it produces to make sure it didn't just fuck it al
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I also don't find it particularly useful, but I know others who claim it is. I think the problem is that people who don't really know what they're doing just paste errors into an LLM and open a PR with the output. If they knew what they were doing and reviewed it as you are then they probably wouldn't end up wasting the project's time.
aaaand now I'm curious (Score:2)
Can we have examples of the AI slop that couldn't possibly be human created?
When it goes wrong, how bad can it get, and what's it trying to do?
Examples (Score:2)
> Can we have examples of the AI slop that couldn't possibly be human created?
> When it goes wrong, how bad can it get, and what's it trying to do?
It's open source, just go look: [1]https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3... [github.com]
First example I found (Page 1) [2]https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3... [github.com]
Another one (Page 7) [3]https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3... [github.com]
[1] https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
[2] https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pull/18697/files
[3] https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pull/18352/files
Re: (Score:2)
I think it's also strongly due to the process that AI PRs are being rejected. For one, they usually have:
Little utility
Overly invasive changes
Bloviated PR text that sounds legit but it absolutely full of shit and self-justifying
Outright lies on metrics or testing
And an author that feels offended you "caught them" and degenerates into just a huge name calling event or a "no I dint" "yes you did" "OK, I did a little" "No you did a lot" "OK, fine I did a lot but its still worthwhile" "No its not your patch to
Programming graffiti (Score:2)
I can understand the people who generate AI slop to sell books and music but what's the point to generating AI code? It's like giving a paintbrush to a monkey and calling the monkey's owner, a great artist. This is graffiti, where 99% of 'artists' are really excusing their abuse of someone else's property (Notice: It's never their own.) with delusions of grandeur. Unfortunately, everyone else has to suffer.
Idiots with computers (Score:2)
Are still idiots. LLMs do not change that.