In each thread like this, people are complaining that this is short-sighted because you can use AI for good. But this completely ignores the actual usage patterns: there's plenty of people who see hobby activities, such as contributing to OSS projects, blogging, or writing Wikipedia articles, as a competition. If you're unconcerned with quality - "Claude, make me a blog post" / "generate 10 improvements for this project" - AI allows you to easily produce content at a rate 100x higher than a human can. This inherent volume asymmetry means that if a sufficiently popular project doesn't reject AI, they will be spending most of their time dealing with AI, and most of this content will be bad in ways that are difficult to spot at a glance.
Why is it my responsibility to deal with that? So that your once-in-a-blue-moon high-quality AI contributions can filter down? All of these projects were doing just fine pre-AI, so most are not too concerned with that. If AI folks want to have the use of AI tools normalized, I'd posit they should really get more invested in promoting quality and ostracizing slop pipelines. They aren't doing that - I'm not seeing this on HN, not on LinkedIn, not in the open-source community.
Why is it my responsibility to deal with that? So that your once-in-a-blue-moon high-quality AI contributions can filter down? All of these projects were doing just fine pre-AI, so most are not too concerned with that. If AI folks want to have the use of AI tools normalized, I'd posit they should really get more invested in promoting quality and ostracizing slop pipelines. They aren't doing that - I'm not seeing this on HN, not on LinkedIn, not in the open-source community.