Wait, Pipewire is full of slop commits "Co-authored by Claude Opus" now? This is bad... https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire
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@downey @lu_leipzig @davidgerard why do you think this is bad?
@wtay @downey @davidgerard In general because of the various ethical, legal and social problems surrounding LLMs, which are widely known by now. In FOSS specifically because, amongst other things, LLMs obfuscate code provenance and thus endanger software freedom. And pipewire in particular, because it's a core project of the Linux desktop, potentially affecting many users, which I feel should thus be held to the highest standards
@downey @lu_leipzig @davidgerard @wtay@fosstodon.org As far as I can tell this started recently, on April 23 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/commits/master?ref_type=HEADS
Was I just blissfully unaware of this until now or has noone noticed yet? CC @davidgerard
Interestingly, after quickly browsing the repo on my phone, this only seems to apply to the many many commits labelled "security". I havent found a non-security commit marked as slop yet.
So many core projects opting not to take a strong stance against this, not to show solidarity amongst software workers, not to defend software development as an art and a craft, and not to fight for software freedom. This is just endlessly frustrating. Can't wait for this fucking bubble to burst. But who knows if things can ever be salvaged at this point, seeing how much damage has already been caused.
