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Ban AI Slop? (lemmy.ml)

I had a report for AI slop today. 1m LOC in 3 months. How do you even modify and distribute that? I do not think we had a rule against it.

IMHO if we allow, the community gets drowned out by AI vomit and it is harder to see handcrafted loved projects that are easy to modify and distribute.

My mind is to ban it to preserve open source.

Are folk in agreememt with this line? Would love to hear your thoughts.

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[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

I don't really want to become the judge of what is "heavily-AI-assisted". I think if I were to write a rule I would focus more on self-promotion in general than trying to decide how AI assisted it was. For example something like this:

This community should not be primarily used for self-promotion. You should be contributing to the community before posting any of your own work and a small fraction of your submissions should be your own work.

As for slop or not I would generally rather rely on user votes to decide if it is "worth it" or not. But maybe that is unsustainable and we will need more of a rule. I do think that if you ask a robot to write you a project in 3 days then post it here it is probably not adding much value.

I'm open to discussion though.

this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2026
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