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This is not a new thing. A decade ago, when I was more active in OSS, I remember occasionally seeing bizarre posts on our mailing lists that had a distinctly Ma
by _zagj 2y ago
This is not a new thing. A decade ago, when I was more active in OSS, I remember occasionally seeing bizarre posts on our mailing lists that had a distinctly Markovian feel that included hallucinated snippets of code. In some cases they used completely unnecessary and out-of-character (for our lists) profanity. These posts were often plausible enough that they usually netted a legitimate reply or two before someone pointed out the OP was a bot.
The goal in some way or another seemed to be spam, either getting access to email addresses, or access to some venue (I guess an issue tracker?) where spam could be posted.
- Bluestein 2y ago> Markovian feel that included hallucinated snippets of code ... "prior art" for hallucinated (confabulated) code ... PS. Sometimes methinks any "moderation"/interaction issue we might encounter nowadays, was faced/dealt with on IRC, before.-
- avian 2y agoLLMs/generative AI is a significant change to what we had to deal before. Both in terms of volume and accessibility to the common fuckwit (to borrow the term from another thread) and in terms of moderator time per interaction (because its now significantly harder to recognize this sort of content).
- Bluestein 2y agoCertainly. I do agree.-
- 0points 2y agoI have seen a few cases in the last couple of years of FOSS bug reports where the author has used PVS-Studio or similar static code analysis tools, and makes a big deal about perceived issues, without really understanding what's going on. These are not LLM at all, but its the same general issue in that it takes 10 second to generate a report but takes days or weeks to comb through all the noise for the FOSS maintainers. Most recently, this one https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/issues/19515 https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/issues/19515