Secondhand AI considered offensive
I’m seeing a trend: Some poor, misguided person passes on an AI generated answer without adding any direct human effort.
The intention is to be helpful, but we all have access to the same tools, more or less, so merely passing on a slopjob isn’t helpful. It’s disrespectful.
Passing on AI content without judgment signals both:
- I think this issue/problem/feature is simple enough that it can be done just by asking a perpetual internet machine, and…
- I don’t think you were smart enough to consider asking AI for guidance on your own.
The same wall of text, human written, would at least show some real effort in understanding the whole problem. Even if misguided, it is a genuine sign that someone spent time on understanding and formulating a well-structured, researched answer. Proof of work, one might say.
[Requiring AI use disclosure] is to help maintainers assess how much attention to give a PR. While we aren’t obligated to in any way, I try to assist inexperienced contributors and coach them to the finish line, because getting a PR accepted is an achievement to be proud of. But if it’s just an AI on the other side, I don’t need to put in this effort, and it’s rude to trick me into doing so.
@mitchellh requiring disclosure for AI assisted PRs to Ghostty.
Copy/pasting code into an AI chat platform then copy/pasting the response to this issue thread is, in my opinion, not at all helpful. […] If you provide some professional insight based on your own experience and experimentation in addition to hitting Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V, that may in fact be useful, but otherwise I would refrain from doing that again on GitHub.
“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad [late comedian Robin Williams] ,” Zelda wrote. “Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. […] It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. […] To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to ‘this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that’s enough’, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening,” she continued. “You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.”
Zelda Williams on people sending her AI clips of her dad, the late Robin Williams. If she wanted those, she could make them herself.