Open-source dev teams have been fighting a rising tide of AI slop contributions ever since LLM tech was loosed upon the Earth, as we documented earlier this year with news that free and open-source game engine Godot was buckling under the weight of AI-generated pull requests (or PRs—that is, code contributions asking to be 'pulled' into the main project).
Well, here's another one. As spotted by GamingOnLinux, popular PS3 emulator RPCS3 has had to come out swinging against the number of LLM-generated pull requests currently being submitted to the project. In a post on X, the devs put it plain: "Please stop submitting AI slop code pull requests to RPCS3. We will start banning those who do without disclosing.
"There are plenty of resources online to learn how to debug and code instead of generating slop that you don't unders...
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