Flathub has replaced its blanket ban on AI-generated applications with a disclosure requirement. Reviewers can still reject submissions, and manifests remain off-limits for AI-generated content.

  • Probably the right decision given there’s no way to truly tell what level of AI generation or effort within the project itself with AI has taken place.

    I understand the willingness to ban low effort low quality one shot projects, but given most software nowadays incorporating some level of LLMs, I can’t ever see a blanket ban working out anywhere.

    • that’s like saying that because we can’t all always 100% tell if someone is cheating at an online game we should forget about banning cheaters - you can prohibit a behavior you aren’t always able to sus out and use a combination of detection heuristics and making that behavior unwelcome (i will say i believe the correct policy is to label projects which discernibly use llms rather than banning them)

        • starsoaked_lily ( starsoaked_lily@lemmy.ml ) 
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          14 hours ago

          do you understand what an analogy is?
          i don’t think llm content is cheating; i think it’s usually garbage and that slop projects are very rarely maintained for more than a few months

          if people want to risk it they can risk it if they want i just want it labeled or in a separate category so i don’t have to waste my own time

          i just find the argument that it is impossible to tell something 100% means you shouldn’t bother deeply suspect since we don’t apply that to other things we care about

          • m532 ( m532@lemmy.ml ) 
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            14 hours ago

            Cheaters are annoying because they win.

            If the new projects were all as useless as you claim, you wouldn’t compare them to cheating.

            This is a direct contradiction. My conclusion: You’re salty that they are more useful than your projects.