The mods have taken action to try to filter out some of the AI spam. This was very needed as Reddit has been completely taken over by AI slop the past year. However, this can only go so far if the users on this subreddit keep upvoting AI slop recreations of existing programs. I realize we're all in a predicament with the avalanche of AI generated programs. It's not reasonable to expect every single person to have the knowledge and context to know that some program someone posted is just a shitty knockoff of an existing popular project. But I think it's reasonable to expect at least some people to realize it, because if that's not the case, then open source will die and this place will have assisted in killing it. The fact is that even with the new rules in place, it is extremely common for vibe coders to have their AI copy/steal an existing project without even understanding that's what just happened. They believe their idea is truly original and ask the AI to go generate it without doing any due diligence into whether it exists already. And then they genuinely believe this program that was generated is original work, instead of what it really is, which is plagiarism. They copied someone else's work and put their own name on it. And the worst part is they often don't realize they're plagiarizing because the AI is the one that did the copying. When these projects are posted and then people upvote it, they're giving legitimacy to people who copy projects and put their own name on it. If that happens enough, the open source community will die, and soon too, not in the distant future. Soon like the next year or two. This subreddit is one of the few communities left on the internet where some people actually care about this and don't want open source to completely die and be replaced by AI slop. If this upvoting of AI recreations of existing projects continues as it is, open source isn't going to be around for much longer.   submitted by   /u/edward_jazzhands [link]   [comments]