I'd argue that the whole internet has a bot problem.
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we need ANTI ai prompt engineers to write hidden injections so that the slop can fuck off
Inject flags for the spamfilter. Not kidding.
just dont make this too obvious to the companies that do this if its possible, otherwise they will try to hide their bots better.
Also, is there a "tos" for open source projects, kind of like what is acceptable behavior and what is not? Directly calling out ai generated "contributions" as malicious and unwanted would at least remove the facade from them as non hostile.
Like, if someone trys to add malicious code to the project, that is definitely gainst some kind of agreement, no? So add slop to it too.
"Looking forward to the article!"
"Happy to be included in the article!"
Not sure whether even those responses were done with the ai or just the sloppers' incapacity of thought showing through, being happy to be labeled as "part of the problem"
I wander if you could add a long list of steps that need to be done, so that all the does it build and work stuff is covered?
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