TheTechnician27@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Man, am I the only one who sees emojis used in place of bullet points and thinks âAn LLM definitely wrote thisâ?
The worst part itâs not that LLMâs do it, its that humans do it. I donât the occasional use of it on things that would benefit from a quick scan (like a website nav bar) but too many people go overboard and sugar cost their text with icons and corpo mumbo jumbo.
Totally feel your sentiment man.
Iâm a convert. After seeing LLMs do it, and now that all platforms have easy interfaces to access them, I use them in my note taking to help memory mapping and chunking.
Weâve been communicating with pictures ever since the ancients scrawled pictographs on cave walls with a burnt piece of firewood.
I feel like Iâm going crazy, because I distinctly remember checking out this project a couple of years ago (before they were called Linkwarden, and then when they renamed it) and noticing all the ai-looking commits (especially after the rename) in the repo so I wrote off the project. Also notice how OP doesnât deny that theyâre using it, just says he started the project before ChatGPT. I went through his profile and the AI profile picture and github.com/daniel31x13/gstack fork are pretty telling.
Letâs be honest, a lot of FOSS projects have been inundated with ai pull requests, and I looked at some that were merged. At least the dev looks like theyâre being responsible about them. Look at the contributors for the last 6 months, claude is right there: github.com/âŚ/8bd3bd376316332693c5074a59dc3ab03559âŚ. Look at that contributorâs profile and website. For another one: github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/pull/1553. Look at that userâs GitHub profile, look at the activity, look at his website. Iâm not saying heâs not a good programmer or anything like that, but be for real, heâs absolutely using AI for his code, if not an ai agent of some sort.
I also find it hard to believe an app that features ai tagging wouldnât also use ai. So it seems disingenuous to tag their Reddit post with âNo AI.â
At the end of the day, Iâm not personally invested, and theyâre free to use ai in their project (it is a tool after all and can be used responsibly). Iâm really developing trust issues with how dodgy some projects are about disclosing their AI usage. Like just say you use it to debug, qa, or brainstorm, and or that the outputs are actually reviewed by a person.
While i dislikes ai i think itâs one of the only ways to create a foss software with a small time with a reasonably small number of people. But this does indeed just look like a no-effort ai post
And I get it, I do, but I think what rubs me the wrong way is how cagey the dev is about AI disclosure.
Use it for your project, itâs open source (which allows me to see that AI is being used) and free to self-host. Like I mentioned previously, I do see the dev being pretty responsible about their usage from the few merge requests and individual commits I looked at.
Personally, I feel like FOSS is built on a foundation of trust, and I find it very hard to trust a dev/project that (in my opinion) lies by omission. So, while I wonât use/contribute/pay for this project, Iâm not judging anyone who does and I wish yâall the best. At the end of the day, itâs your time, effort, money (if you donate and or pay for the hosted plan), and or hardware (if you choose to self-host).
Especially, after fiascos like Booklore (another project I now feel vindicated for writing off early) and the general trend of enshittification for almost all software and services, can you blame people for being a bit more skeptical?
They learned all of this from us.
No, you are definitely not the only one. I tend to be more judgemental of projects that contain prolific use of emojis in general, but that has been ongoing since before AI became popular.
Yeah, it sucks because I kind of like emojis, but now I feel like I canât use them because people will think my docs are AI generated.
Let them think it. All those experts seeing AI everywhere can live under their rock and stay there. Recently an artist I personally know was criticized for using AI in his artwork - oil paintings each one signed by hand. Photographed in a way you can see itâs real paint and a real place for the last 20 years. It annoys me more to see all these accusations being placed without having looked at it even one bit further.
Yeah, itâs frustrating on both ends.
Readers and viewers of art are increasingly skeptical because of all the intentionally deceptive content flooding the zone.
Meanwhile, the humans actually making new things get drowned out by the slop and accused of using AI when they finally do surface.
They created BS machines that made everyone more distrustful of real human experience.
My eyes just slide right over it, even if itâs something I initially found interesting.
You are not the only one - youâre still overreacting. The use of emojis does not make it AI generated. At least try to find some other hints before accusing a possible real person of something.
Who the fuck cares or takes the time to bully someone about using emojis? If you want to use emojis do it, individuality and self expression are things I personally love seeing. Say meow, use an emoji (đ§ââď¸ is my personal favorite), purposefully speill thangz wrongggg, say yee haw and curse a bunch or donât. The people who take the time to make bullshit comments like these are lame.
Donât let the haters overshadow the awesome work that has been done on this project. đŻâ ď¸
Thank you đ
I do that when Iâm stylizing my notes. Helps make things easier to visually distinguish sections and such.
Although I must admit that I saw an ai do it first and decided it was a good idea.
daniel31x13@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Weâve been active before the AI-slop era, even before the existence of ChatGPT :)
www.star-history.com/?repos=linkwarden%2FlinkwardâŚ
potustheplant@feddit.nl â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Thatâs not really answer, but ok.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
What about the activity during the AI slop era?
poop@lemmy.zip â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I donât really care about vibe coding as long as the Dev is open and honest about what it entails. But evasive bs like this makes me glad I switched away from linkwarden last year