alt Hacker News> I'm not anti-ai but I am firmly anti-make-people-read-llm-output-I-didn't-read-myself, and this breaks this.
This here might hit the nail on the head exactly in terms of what the biggest FOSSes gripe with LLMs with might be: not the fact people use it but rather how it hinders the communication.
If you use it to help the write code, but you explain things in your own words or, at very least, redact and trim LLMs output, it's fine.
If you, however, just drop a wall of text at someone and expect they act on its b/s, this is lazy to the point it borders with microagression.
You wouldn't expect a distinguished professor explain basic maths to a student, and we shouldn't expect actual developers address Copilot's stupid, unredacted hallucinations or otherwise unrelated remarks.
This works for patches submission, too: you should be outright banned for submitting stuff you didn't bother to double check and properly document.
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That is one of the biggest gripes for almost anyone I ever met who deals with AI generated content. Nobody really cares that someone else's work was generated with AI as much as they care that it's slop and they need to put in extra effort to work around the author's laziness.
Lazy or incompetent colleagues always forced people around them to overcompensate and correct. AI increased their firepower and blast radius.
If you could explain what you're doing why would you use LLMs to do it in the fist place? For speed over control? Explaining means you're effectively able to do the modification yourself, and I'm fairly certain that's a low percentage of all AI contributions.
Maybe we should all respond to LLM text walls with aggressively doubled LLM text walls, expanding geometrically until the originating party either gives up or learns to communicate with their own words.