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The GNOME.org Extensions hosting for GNOME Shell extensions will no longer accept new contributions with AI-generated code. A new rule has been added to their review guidelines to forbid AI-generated code.

Due to the growing number of GNOME Shell extensions looking to appear on extensions.gnome.org that were generated using AI, it's now prohibited. The new rule in their guidelines note that AI-generated code will be explicitly rejected

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[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 86 points 1 week ago (2 children)

extension developers should be able to justify and explain the code they submit, within reason

I think this is the meat of how the policy will work. People can use AI or not. Nobody is going to know. But if someone slops in a giant submission and can’t explain why any of the code exists, it needs to go in the garbage.

Too many people think because something finally “works”, it’s good. Once your AI has written code that seems to work, that’s supposed to be when the human starts their work. You’re not done. You’re not almost done. You have a working prototype that you now need to turn into something of value.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just the fact that people are actually trying to regulate it instead of "too nuanced, I will fix it tomorrow" makes me haply.

But they are also doing it pretty reasonably too. I like this.

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[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You used to be able to tell an image was photoshopped because of the pixels. Now with code you can tell it was written with AI because of the comments.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 week ago

and from seeing quite a few slops in my time

[–] AnotherPenguin@programming.dev 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Emojis in comments, filename as a comment in the first line, and so on

[–] NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I've been in the habit of putting the filename as first comment in most of my scripts forever. I don't know when or why I started but please don't make me change!

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago

You're absolutely right — we shouldn't have to change our style just because a machine copies it.

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

it’s how example code is often written when it’s i. a book or a webpage… there’s not really a good reason to do it in a real file because it’s in the filename.
but if it helps you organize it doesn’t hurt anything.

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

Isn't fine name in the comment in the first line default behavior for multiple IDE/boilerplate generations?

[–] dil@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

They werent hiding it, they started with vibe

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

# Optional but [...]

edit to explain my very vague comment: ChatGPT loves to offer code with some lines commented as "Optional [... explanation]". You can easily tell AI code when the monologuing comments are left in

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

Rare, so needed Gnome W

[–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 week ago
[–] data1701d@startrek.website 34 points 1 week ago (52 children)

You know, GNOME does some stupid stuff, but I can respect them for this.

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[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 19 points 1 week ago

I applaud the move, but man, that's gonna be a lot of work on their end.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 15 points 1 week ago (9 children)

How is AI-generated content detected and what is the process for disputing such claims?

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's not hard, just use your eyes or an AI-detector

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Good.

I'm mostly switched off SAMMI because their current head dev is all in on AI bullshit. Got maybe one thing left to move to streamerbot and I'm clear there. My two regular viewers wont notice at all but I'll feel better about it.

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