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[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (6 children)
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[–] xkbx@startrek.website 37 points 4 days ago (18 children)

Couldn’t you just set up actual AI/LLM verification questions, like “how many r’s in strawberry?”

Or even just have an AI / Manual contribution divide. Wouldn’t stop everything 100% but might help the clean-up process better

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[–] derAbsender@piefed.social 10 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Stupid question:

Are there really no safe guards to the merging process except for human oversight?

Isnt there some "In Review State" where people who want to see the experimental stuff, can pull this experimental stuff and if enough™ people say "This new shit is okay" it gets merged?

So the Main Project doesnt get poisoned and everyone can still contribute in a way and those who want to Experiment can test the New Stuff.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Most projects don't have enough people or external interest for that kind of process.

It would be possible to establish some tooling like that, but standard forges don't provide that. So it'd feel cumbersome.

And in the end you're back at having contributors, trustworthiness, and quality control. Because testing and reviewing are contributions too. You don't want just a popularity contest (I want this) nor blindly trust unknown contribute.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It is my understanding that pull requests say "Hey, I forked and modified your project. Look at it and consider adopting my changes in your project." So anyone who wants to look at the "experimental stuff" can just pull that fork. Someone in charge of the main branch decides if and when to merge pull requests.

The problem becomes the volume of requests; they're kinda getting DDOS'd.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Sounds like they need a bot to check the code for AI telltales. Send AI to kill AI.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like an excellent use of power and water and cou cycles in data centers.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago

Time to become a plumber!

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

People want AI, people get AI! Force feed your self with AI, thats what you wanted right? ask your self, what innovations have AI brought to us, apart from money to big corporate companies.

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[–] kepix@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

gzdoom just simply banned ai code, and made a new fork that tries to stay clean. why cant they do the same?

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