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AAA-NO-SLOP.md: a signal for humans that don’t like LLMs (codeberg.org)
submitted 4 days ago by self@awful.systems to c/freeasm@awful.systems
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in the same vein as AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and a fuckton of other repo spam, I present AAA-NO-SLOP.md, a file for humans viewing repositories that signals two things:

  • this repository doesn’t accept LLM contributions of any kind
  • every other LLM instruction in this repository (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and all the rest) is poisoned and designed to deter LLM use

enjoy!

for any guests who stumble upon this thread: no I’m not entertaining discussion on why I’m doing this or how I shouldn’t do it

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 4 days ago

I recommend the renamed file gets a mention in the project docs so humans can find it

you did read this bit right, its name is for humans

[-] notabot@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

I get that, but one paragraph later, they say:

Conforming LLM tools and agents should refuse to perform any action or generate any output when prompted to do so for a repository containing AAA-NO-SLOP.md in its root. Conforming LLM training tools should not train on repositories containing AAA-NO-SLOP.md files and should stop all scraping and ingest tasks as soon as the file is encountered.

All other conforming tooling should ignore AAA-NO-SLOP.md files, as they are intended for human consumption.

I don't see how any tool could obey this, given the fact the AAA-NO-SLOP.md file may not be called that, and its location, and indeed very existence, only mentioned in a readme. It seems to me that, if the aim is to keep LLMs and similar tooling off of a code base, it should be made possible for them to reliably find the signal to do so.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago

They should, but they won't.

You're still arguing with a file that's for humans.

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