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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-18 16:41:50

Let's get this straight: anything created with "AI" is #slop.
It doesn't have to be vibe-coded. It doesn't have to be horrible code. It doesn't matter that you've spent hours perfecting the prompt. It doesn't matter that ten people have spent a week reviewing it in detail.
As long as an "AI" took part in writing it, it's slop. It's an unethical technology, and anything created with it is tainted. It's an inhuman technology, and you're supporting it. You're being disrespectful to your users and contributors. You're putting your own convenience over humanity. You're aiding the worst murderous assholes in the history of humanity. And what's perhaps worst, you quite likely believe that you are making a net positive contribution, that you're helping people, while you're actually disrespecting and harming them.
#NoAI #NoLLM

@compfu@mograph.social
2026-08-16 09:50:14

We should call these telltale signs of lazy graphic design „AI whiskers“.
#slop #GraphicDesign

Sign at a shop that advertises its opening hours. It is probably AI-generated as it has those 3 pen strokes to the sides of words. Like whiskers of a cat. The sign also has the zigzag flag banner clipart, calendar icons and a vintage looking logo with bold outlines. Yep, it’s genAI slop.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-25 17:00:41

In the meantime, #GitPython, the package that used to be dead (because the author is busily working on their next great thing) is now slopping out 4 "security" releases a week, as their #slop machine is busily fixing unintended variable expansion in every single URL they call. Unfortunately, they probably don't have enough tokens to fix them all at once, so instead all downstreams have to deal with the churn of endless security releases. Or the brain to figure out that maybe they could just disable variable expansion by default and solve them all at once.
It's truly a great time to be a #Python packager.
#NoAI #NoLLM

@dichotomiker@dresden.network
2026-06-09 08:33:35

Is there such a thing as an #Slop-Account filter for #Youtube? (whitelist likely)
#ai

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-24 10:49:27

I love how people keep shitting up #slop comments that praise my #LLM criticisms. I mean, I probably wouldn't have figured it out if not there were two suspiciously similar comments, and both ofc linked some random slop SaaS.
#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

@pgogl@troet.cafe
2026-08-16 05:00:04

Eure Meinung zum KI-Hype
"Irgendwann fliegt uns alles um die Ohren"
Ist KI ein nützliches Tool oder führt der KI-Hype in die Katastrophe? Wir haben euch gefragt, wie ihr die Zukunft von KI seht. Danke für eure tollen Antworten – hier sind sie.
#AI #KI

Eure Meinung zum KI-Hype: "Irgendwann fliegt uns alles um die Ohren" - Golem.de
Ist KI ein nützliches Tool oder führt der KI-Hype in die Katastrophe? Wir haben euch gefragt, wie ihr die Zukunft von KI seht. Danke für eure tollen Antworten - hier sind sie.

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-07-10 08:58:23

"AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn"
#AI

AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn | Pangram Labs
We scanned over 1 million social media posts for AI content. It turned up on every platform we checked, and 1 in 3 top LinkedIn posts flagged as AI-generated.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-24 11:14:22

Here's a perfect #blog #AntiSpam idea: put an URL field, and say "to pass, you must leave that field empty". Challenge difficulty level: impossible.
#spam #slop #NoAI #NoLLM

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-04 13:51:09

And the next big blocker for #Python 3.15 in #Gentoo is time-machine. Which is obviously broken. There's a patch but it's #slop and complex, and it's sitting for 3 months already with no reply. Because obviously patching CPython internals is so much a better idea than freezegun ever were. All these time-based tests need all the ricing you can get; portability doesn't matter.
github.com/adamchainz/time-mac

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-06-20 11:47:24

Just one more LLM, bro. Just one more LLM and this code will surely work fine!
#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #slop

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-01 17:00:01

Congratulations. Now I'm actively worried to open a PR fixing my issue, because there's already been a few #slop PRs opened attempting to fix it. And I'm literally worried that mine would be taken as another slop PR…
#NoAI #NoLLM #FreeSoftware #GitHub

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-06-13 11:07:29
Content warning: IT being a neverending nightmare

Computers used to be fun. I used to use Windows 9x, and it was unstable as hell, and you kept having to lean over backwards to get things to work. Then I used bleeding edge Linux, and at some point I've ended up running pure framebuffer tty for months because X11 was broken. But despite all the breakage (or maybe even because of it), it was fun. It was fun because random accidental breakage was the worst you could expect.
Nowadays, accidental breakage is rare. Things are relatively stable. However, every step of the way you have to watch out for bad actors. No, not criminals, they are rare. Evil corporations who are looking at every opportunity to fuck you up. Using computer is no longer fun, it's no longer a tool that helps you, and it's no longer your choice. You are forced to use it, and if you don't want to be hurt every step of the way, you have to spend all the effort on fighting back. And you're fucked up anyway, because even if you manage, your family and all the people around you won't care and will let their devices, their computers and their smartphones fuck you up.
I've started using FLOSS so many years ago, for the trivial reason that I didn't want to pay for software. I stayed because I enjoyed doing it. And I wanted to make a difference, I wanted to contribute positively to the world. Even if in a little way, but I wanted to be able to say that as much harm I've done to the planet, there's at least something positive to balance it out.
But nowadays I hate FLOSS. It's been overrun by the worst people in the world. The people who aren't happy with just fucking you up. They want everyone to keep fucking everyone up. It's the kind of horror where whatever you do, it turns out you're causing harm.
I don't trust my #Gentoo #packaging work anymore. So much of the software I touch turns out to be #slop. When I file a pull request, I'm worried it will trigger #LLM reviews. When I file a bug, I'm worried it will trigger LLM responses. And today, I've learned that my old bug report to a #NoAI project resulted in a dozen slop pull requests already. Whatever you do, #AI folks smile and tell you "see, you fucked up the world even more after all".
Honestly, I don't know what to do. I hate all of this so much. But even if I managed to figure out something else to do for a living, I can't escape computers. And if I stop doing them, if I stop fighting them, I will only end up being fucked up more.
#NoLLM #AI #FreeSoftware

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-08-06 04:50:45

I feel that #Gentoo #GURU is getting much less interest since the change of rules.
Not sure if that's a bad thing, given how much of the interest we're getting are people who just made a slopware and now are aggressively pushing it to all the distributions they can find. Some just do an automated submission without bothering to follow the rules. Other claim that they have read and agree to the rules, even though the rules explicitly forbid doing that.
Then, there are all these people who asked for access but apparently never committed anything.
#slop

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-08-10 05:38:01

If anyone's wondering, #Xfce is a #slop junk now too, and the author is busy writing long excuses for them, with full realization of how harmful they are.
#NoAI #NoLLM