Pixelfed bans AI generated contributions.
We heard you! We are not accepting any AI or agentic code contributions, and will keep building Pixelfed by hand.
Thank you for your feedback!
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed#ai-generated-contributions
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@pixelfed I wonder, does this apply to security vulnerabilities as well, what happens if someone uses an LLM and finds a genuine vulnerability, is it just gonna get ignored because it comes from an LLM, the models are actually good at this...
@rebootl If they report a legit vulnerability, we can work on our own fix (and code) and wouldn't be an issue.
@pixelfed Yes! Let's not use power tools to build a house! Because why would we!
@pixelfed Dank maar volgens mij zijn er nog veel bugs. Gelukkig hou ik wat echt belangrijk is en er toe doet in eigen bewaring.
@pixelfed thanks, I was this 🤏 close to consider phasing out a Pixelfed instance if it the software became slopware.
@pixelfed Any Business that rejects Ai Im automatically a fan of !
A clear contribution policy saves maintainers from reviewing work they cannot safely merge. It also tells newcomers exactly where human judgment still matters.
@pixelfed even though there is a stronger consensus that using AI will degrade the project quality in the long term, I personally feel like we have to find middle ground. Completely abandoning AI will slow down progress. I see so many pain points in using the #pixelfed app itself. I feel, goal should be to make OSS genuine alternative to private software and taking AI's help, will help us achieve it. But doing a complete vibe coding is a no no. Tools like auto completion are really helpful tools
@pixelfed that's great news! even in a time where vibe coding or contributions related to it are becoming more and more common even though i don't think vibe coding should be like that or should even be a thing at most but regardless that's still great news
@pixelfed well that’s dumb. Since when do users dictate anything?
@pixelfed You will thank your earlier self when you have to go back and edit code in the future.
@pixelfed a step towards the right direction
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Great. Now unban my @LargeGiraffe account.
@pixelfed Actually banning agentic contributions isn't really a good idea, as people can actually achieve good quality with coding agents.
@alexchapman Do you do programming? Or are you like the ai bros insisting ai slop is art? @cinebox @pixelfed
@sackofbones There's no such thing as AI slop in programming unless you mean those idiots who one shot everything. @cinebox @pixelfed
@sackofbones I answered it dumb fuck! @cinebox @pixelfed
Please stop spamming my notifications with this pointless back and forth.. I don't think you're ready to have this conversation
@cuirass_entertainment Oh I've had it, and its clear people are too full of themselves to even see both sides of it. @pixelfed
@alexchapman We are here because we're happy that a project listened to their user base and decided to no longer allow AI generated code. Why, exactly, are you here?
@chadmccullough Because if it were not for a few dozen anti-AI people, the dev would not have done that. And to put it into context, there's thousands of Pixelfed users, and a few dozen, maybe a couple hundred at most, are part of this anti-AI nonsense, so quite a minority. @cuirass_entertainment @pixelfed
@alexchapman So, how do you know how many Pixelfed users wanted the project to stop using AI?
Being anti-AI is not nonsense. Its use is full of ethical issues that people like you don't seem to give a shit about, but many people just like me do give a shit about.
@chadmccullough That's your view, but more people either don't give a damn or also think that AI has its uses. @cuirass_entertainment @pixelfed
@alexchapman Listen, use or don't use it. I don't really care. I choose not to use it or support it any way. If you want to support it, then support it. But you really need to do a better job of knowing when and where to defend your use of it. This is not the place.
@alexchapman @chadmccullough @cuirass_entertainment @pixelfed
alex i glanced at your profile
you're blind?
you're not the first blind person i've met who defends AI
and i understand it. it must be such a boon for those with vision impairments
is it this that drives your position?
i think AI, if done ethically, can be a great benefit for people with disabilities
but alex, you have to understand: pushing the current AI manifestation *in general* is not the same issue. be more nuanced
@benroyce That and also that me and my other friends and even people that I know through Blind Information Technology Solutions (BITS) struggle to code by hand and thus AI helps us get good quality code done and thus we are making accessible programs. Also we're not just one shot prompting everything, some of our stuff we've worked on for weeks and some repos have like hundreds of tests, and not just that, we test things to make sure everything is perfect, and if something's off, we go back to the Claude window and tell it what's wrong, and what's missing or what it needs to do, even researching documentation for the NVDA screen reader and libraries that help programs interact with the screen reader APIs, and it does really well because we take the time to make it work. @chadmccullough @cuirass_entertainment @pixelfed
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cue the sloppers in 3 ... 2... 1...