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Open source died in March. It just doesn't know it yet. (www.chainguard.dev)
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[–] XLE@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

This post reeks of AI generated text.

The zombie isn't open source. It's the way you've been consuming it for the last twenty years.

Putting makeup on the zombie while it's peeing all over the place isn't a security strategy. It's just a longer, sadder, grosser goodbye.

March isn't when the bite happened. It's when the smell finally became impossible to ignore.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

https://slopdetector.org/ says it has too diverse vocabulary.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

AI content detectors seem to have very different opinions about the article.

But thank you for bringing this site to my attention. It appears terrible.

The website you linked appears to be slop itself. Insubstantive, rambling, exhibiting all the hallmarks of slop ("it's not X, EMDASH, it's Y"). And it's apparently pro AI (read: pro slop), Complaining that people dare "judge origin, not quality."

In three consecutive sentences, Slopsite insists AI can "produce useful, substantive content when prompted well", regurgitates a slop phrase ("about X not Y" style), and then gets weirdly misanthropic ("Humans write slop too").

But okay, let's listen to them and see it judge content not quality:

Not A but B. Not A but B. Not A but B. Not A but B. Not A but B.

Low slop.

Every word a pattern. Every pattern an algorithm. Every algorithm a meaning.

Not slop. 0/20 (perfect) score on "vocabulary diversity".

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Bonus: Slopsite is the worst AI slop (I repeat myself). It uses an AI-generated list of examples of slop, and most of them point to nonexistent URLs.

Chicago Sun-Times Ghost Books, 2024

It was 2025.

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

This links to a nonexistent article with "2024" in the URL.