Tootfinder

It seems #Google #scholar has now really become #slopware. Every week I get weirder and weirder edit suggestions, this time to revert several published papers to their preprint versions..
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There could be different signs that projects are becoming #slopware. Some are more obvious, like having agent instructions that are more detailed than anything they ever wrote to humans. Some are less clear but perhaps even more ominous, like largely mature projects suddenly starting to churn out two releases a day, often with regressions that I don't even care to report anymore.
I used to think that my work as a #Gentoo packager was important. Now I feel that a large part of it resembles sitting at the end of a sewage pipe and trying to scrape something meaningful out of it all.
#NoAI