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submitted 2 days ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/games@lemmy.world

A user asked on the official Lutris GitHub two weeks ago "is lutris slop now" and noted an increasing amount of "LLM generated commits". To which the Lutris creator replied:

It's only slop if you don't know what you're doing and/or are using low quality tools. But I have over 30 years of programming experience and use the best tool currently available. It was tremendously helpful in helping me catch up with everything I wasn't able to do last year because of health issues / depression.

There are massive issues with AI tech, but those are caused by our current capitalist culture, not the tools themselves. In many ways, it couldn't have been implemented in a worse way but it was AI that bought all the RAM, it was OpenAI. It was not AI that stole copyrighted content, it was Facebook. It wasn't AI that laid off thousands of employees, it's deluded executives who don't understand that this tool is an augmentation, not a replacement for humans.

I'm not a big fan of having to pay a monthly sub to Anthropic, I don't like depending on cloud services. But a few months ago (and I was pretty much at my lowest back then, barely able to do anything), I realized that this stuff was starting to do a competent job and was very valuable. And at least I'm not paying Google, Facebook, OpenAI or some company that cooperates with the US army.

Anyway, I was suspecting that this "issue" might come up so I've removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what's generated and what is not. Whether or not I use Claude is not going to change society, this requires changes at a deeper level, and we all know that nothing is going to improve with the current US administration.

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[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Honestly, unfortunately, I agree. It IS unfortunately helpful, and if you're a competent developer using AI tooling, you can make sure it doesn't generate slop. You are responsible for your code, at the end of the day.

AI does generate societal damage, but that's mostly because of how companies abuse it and less because of the technology itself.

[-] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago

AI does generate societal damage, but that’s mostly because of how companies abuse it and less because of the technology itself.

Don't excuse the technology. It was created to be useless and wasteful. Every question on an AI engine helps burn down entire forests. Every AI that is kept awaken and serving dries the lagoons and rivers of an indigenous tribe, if not a small town. Every model is built upon the sustained theft of art, code and identity, to the point the main financers are proud of it and using it as legal justification.

People who are evil, made a tool for evil, and those using the tool of evil are doing little more than enabling evil. Number must go up.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

I'm excusing the technology because it's specifically not useless, I have found uses for it. I'm not going to demonize the technology when the companies that are abusing it are nearly the entire problem. It's about the scope of resources required and the job loss produced by this tech.

Do you really think running LLMs locally on your GPU is causing irreversible societal harm?

I know, it's not popular to say AI isn't the problem, but honestly, the companies abusing it are the problem.

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 11 points 1 day ago

By telling people he expected this and obfuscating the authorship afterwards, he is doing damage in the form of eroding trust for a tool that has otherwise proven reliable.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

He removed the authorship specifically because he was attacked for using AI.

People were already going after him for using AI.

I have no problem with him using AI personally, because I trust that he is a competent enough dev if he has built and maintained this program thus far. If you don't trust him specifically because he's using AI now, and you don't trust him to review the code the AI produces, then that's your choice.

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Anyway, I was suspecting that this “issue” might come up so I’ve removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago.

He knew it was going to be an issue. This wasn't about being attacked.

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

As I've said elsewhere here, I really don't have a problem with people holding a moral stance against the use of genAI. It's fine to just say "However useful this might be, I don't want to see it used because I think it has too many ethical costs/consequences." But blanket accusing all work that involved genAI in any capacity of being "slop" isn't holding a moral stance, it's demanding that reality conform to your beliefs; "I hate this, therefore it must be terrible in every respect."

If you truly hold a well founded ethical stance against the use of genAI, that stance shouldn't be threatened by people doing good and effective work with genAI, because it's effectiveness should have nothing to do with your objections.

[-] Seefoo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

probably one of the most reasonable comments here.

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

but that's mostly because of how companies abuse it and less because of the technology itself.

In any other context this is tech to help us in our post scarce future.

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