alt Hacker News> AI slop is a real problem and annoying. Just because it exists does not mean every vulnerability report is AI slop.
Ok but who is going to sift through it all to triage the good bits when you're working on something for free?
> Ffmpeg devs are free not to care, but then they cant complain when they start to get a bad reputation
Who gives a shit about reputation when you're the only game in town?
There is nothing out there that even attempts to approximate an ffmpeg clone. They are the Swiss army knife of media encoding and all complainers have produced are plastic sporks.
> Ok but who is going to sift through it all to triage the good bits when you're working on something for free?
Its like anything else in open source. Maintainers will do so if they care. Maybe they decide they don't care. That is always their decision to make but there are consequences for the project. Maybe those consequences make sense. Being a maintainer is all about making cost-benefit trade offs.
> Who gives a shit about reputation when you're the only game in town?
Its up to the maintainers whether they care or not. It depends on what they value.
Ultimately if maintainers make decisions that are at odds with what their userbase want, someone eventually forks and people vote with their feet.