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Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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A user asked on the official Lutris GitHub two weeks ago "is lutris slop now" and noted an increasing amount of "LLM generated commits". To which the Lutris creator replied:

It's only slop if you don't know what you're doing and/or are using low quality tools. But I have over 30 years of programming experience and use the best tool currently available. It was tremendously helpful in helping me catch up with everything I wasn't able to do last year because of health issues / depression.

There are massive issues with AI tech, but those are caused by our current capitalist culture, not the tools themselves. In many ways, it couldn't have been implemented in a worse way but it was AI that bought all the RAM, it was OpenAI. It was not AI that stole copyrighted content, it was Facebook. It wasn't AI that laid off thousands of employees, it's deluded executives who don't understand that this tool is an augmentation, not a replacement for humans.

I'm not a big fan of having to pay a monthly sub to Anthropic, I don't like depending on cloud services. But a few months ago (and I was pretty much at my lowest back then, barely able to do anything), I realized that this stuff was starting to do a competent job and was very valuable. And at least I'm not paying Google, Facebook, OpenAI or some company that cooperates with the US army.

Anyway, I was suspecting that this "issue" might come up so I've removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what's generated and what is not. Whether or not I use Claude is not going to change society, this requires changes at a deeper level, and we all know that nothing is going to improve with the current US administration.

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[-] warm@kbin.earth 0 points 1 week ago

These AI people are so delusional. They contradict themselves immediately.

But I have over 30 years of programming experience

Then you don't need AI.

In many ways, it couldn't have been implemented in a worse way but it was AI that bought all the RAM, it was OpenAI. It was not AI that stole copyrighted content, it was Facebook. It wasn't AI that laid off thousands of employees, it's deluded executives who don't understand that this tool is an augmentation, not a replacement for humans.

??? The common denominator is AI. By using it you are part of the problem. All mainstream AI is trained on stolen data.

I'm not a big fan of having to pay a monthly sub to Anthropic, I don't like depending on cloud services.

Then don't?

There are massive issues with AI tech, but those are caused by our current capitalist culture, not the tools themselves.

The "tools" require large amounts of storage, RAM, electricity, water etc etc. The only tool is the end user.

Anyway, I was suspecting that this "issue" might come up so I've removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what's generated and what is not.

So they are just an asshole and their excuse finding is just irrelevant.

[-] froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This guy is maintaining that huge project for an eternity in his free time, but entitled hypocrits like you have audacity to call him an asshole. No one needs your recommendations. Even if you have experience to maintain and develop a project for 16 years and your brain is capable to keep everything in the context, and type hundreds of lines manually for the most tedious tasks—good for you, but there are different people with different brains. AI helpers with proper tooling is a good instrument in hands of a good engineer. They are basically better autocomplete and searching tools, and they are amazing 'rubber duck' companions making coding process psychologically easier if you stressed, anxious, or depressed, but need the job to be done. If you think what you're doing, you won't produce slop whatever instrument you use, if not—you'll write slop without AI.

When bubble pops soon, AI have to become sustainable economically and ecologically. Same happened during the dotcom bubble.

So, either help the project, or leave opensource devs alone

[-] warm@kbin.earth 0 points 1 week ago

Lmao. I have nothing but respect for FOSS projects and have donated plenty of money to many.

What I am not supporting is the use the of AI, if they want to, then they can, I will just stop using their project.

Yes, you are an asshole if you dont disclose it and the comments I've seen from him just cements that for me more.

AI can fuck off, we havent needed it for decades and decades, we dont need it now.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I get your argument, you consider AI bad and require the use of it to be disclosed so that you can avoid it - reasonable take.

My question is, do you avoid projects that use GitHub for hosting? Because that's supporting Microsoft, which is helping ICE kill people. So the ethical thing to do is to boycott GitHub and projects that use it.

Do you require open source projects to disclose that they use any US-made hardware or software in their development? Because taxes from the sale of them fund missiles that kill children in Iran.

What is the list of things in your mind, that a maintainer has to disclose in order for you to not consider him an asshole for not disclosing it? Surely not just AI use?

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