by bloody-crow
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- I can understand having some moral opposition to using gen-AI or accepting AI contributions to your projects. I personally disagree with this, but it's a defensible position at least.
Trying to harm your users for using gen-AI seems like the worst type of overeager activism that does more to destroy your reputation and trust than achieving anything tangible.
I would advise against hiring the author of this change in any kind of hypothetical scenario where I get a vote based on this behavior alone.
- Hilarious. If your tools run arbitrary instructions from stdout you are a clown and deserve to be clowned upon.
by yomismoaqui
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- I know Github stars are not the best way to measure the importance of a project, but 675 seems a little too low for what seems like the main property testing library on Java.
Maybe it's because property testing is not that popular?
by throwaway81523
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- Gack. I saw one a while back that didn't try to actively harm anything, but it included a lot of swearing and inflammatory political slogans intended to prevent scrapers from training on it. I mean by purposely exceeding alignment guardrails, not because the rants were intended to evoke anything particular in human viewers. I've been wanting to find it again.
- This thread is hilarious.
"We built a machine that takes everything everyone published online for free and regurgitates it while taking up $1T of combined investments and energy/water costs and we promise to make your job obsolete. And oh yeah we need your mum's retirement funds to keep going."
Yes, that's amazing. Let's go. Full speed ahead, we need to take this as far as we can.
"My little library prints some funny text to stdout."
Oh no that's too dangerous why would anyone risk their reputation like that.
by liampulles
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- It's interesting to think that logging is now an undocumented API.
by ShinyLeftPad
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- Props to jqwik maintainer for taking a stance.
by sdevonoes
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- Would love to see this more widespread.
- does it even work?
by dijksterhuis
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- good on them, taking a stand having weighed up the issue for themselves. remember that we are not entitled to the changes we want in FOSS projects that we do not maintain ourselves. same principle applies in this case as far as i’m concerned.
i’ve got a library i’ve been tempted to try this sort of thing with. adding anti-ai instruction header comments into every source file (not planning any deletion instructions). the hope is clankers could read docs, but no source code. source code is reserved for humans willing to spend time to understand the code.
by whateveracct
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- It is fun to see the corporate bootlickers getting worked up about ASCII comments (!) that might hurt their dream $1 trillion company, which will make them unemployed and does not care about them.
I always wondered why some people defended IG Farben in 1943. Not any more.
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