Widelands is a free and open source Settlers-like strategy game, and their developers appear to be setting a firm stance against any AI generated contributions.
Well, you don’t really need to announce anything, if the AI-generated submissions were super helpful anyways.
But yeah, I guess, all I can say is that I really don’t believe your theory. Especially Widelands could’ve done so many other things in the past, if they cared so much for attention.
But I have also been in the maintainer role, having to deal with generated submissions, and it really isn’t fun. I’m talking specifically about fun, because these are community-driven projects, so you need volunteers to have fun for anything to happen.
In theory, a generated code submission could bring useful changes to the project, but it still isn’t fun to review, because there isn’t a human on the other side that you can teach. Even worse, you’re effectively just talking to an LLM through a middleman. If I wanted to use an LLM, I’d use it directly.
I think you’re taking what I said too negatively toward the developers themselves I put the virtue signalling line in there to hopefully make that clear I wasn’t accusing them of anything. I was more commenting on what kind of news gets picked up by content farms.
I’ve learned about sooo many opensource projects because the devs made some anti-AI comment that got reported here
Well, you don’t really need to announce anything, if the AI-generated submissions were super helpful anyways.
But yeah, I guess, all I can say is that I really don’t believe your theory. Especially Widelands could’ve done so many other things in the past, if they cared so much for attention.
But I have also been in the maintainer role, having to deal with generated submissions, and it really isn’t fun. I’m talking specifically about fun, because these are community-driven projects, so you need volunteers to have fun for anything to happen.
In theory, a generated code submission could bring useful changes to the project, but it still isn’t fun to review, because there isn’t a human on the other side that you can teach. Even worse, you’re effectively just talking to an LLM through a middleman. If I wanted to use an LLM, I’d use it directly.
I think you’re taking what I said too negatively toward the developers themselves I put the virtue signalling line in there to hopefully make that clear I wasn’t accusing them of anything. I was more commenting on what kind of news gets picked up by content farms.
I’ve learned about sooo many opensource projects because the devs made some anti-AI comment that got reported here