A new chapter of This Week in GNOME has been published!

[lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world]

@gnome cool cool cool cool cool

[lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world]

(also courtesy ping @haeckerfelix as the curator, I guess, just for awareness (I don’t know what the editorial guidelines are or whatever))

[tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

@LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world @haeckerfelix@mastodon.social I may be missing something, but not sure that one sentence indicates that it's slop? I think there are much better signs to look out for

[lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world]

@tragivictoria the sentence immediately before that is what made me think “oh this sounds a lot like LLM output”, but for the screenshot I highlighted the one that seemed like the most obvious smoking gun

why should I assume that the rest of the update is lovingly hand-crafted prose, when it ends with an obvious chatbot signature that Miklós Zsitva didn’t even bother to remove?

[tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

@LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world oh I see what you mean now. Yeah that had to be LLM generated

[sophie@floss.social]

@LucasWerkmeister sadly the Shell Extensions got absolutely spammed with slop. There is a policy against LLM generated code for shell extensions, but I guess TWIG needs one too now. However, from my own projects, I can report that people will knowingly ignore anti AI policies.

[lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world]

@sophie

[hsza@social.tudbut.de]

@LucasWerkmeister @gnome GAHAHAHAHAHA twig fell off

[hsza@social.tudbut.de]

@LucasWerkmeister @gnome my faith in the gnome project having any semblance of a spine is dwindling by the minute

[lumi@snug.moe]

@sophie @LucasWerkmeister i feel the path forward is to make it as shameful as possible to use genai. to get it banned in as many places as we possibly can and try to shift the public perception of it as negatively as possible

also to band together with other affected professions and try to get all genai banned for all purposes

[ariarhythmic@ohai.social]

@gnome "If you want, I can also turn this into a shorter GNOME Extensions changelog blurb or a more formal release note."

They got you huh

[gnome@floss.social]

@hsza @LucasWerkmeister individual project updates are developer-submitted via an automated process, not written by “the GNOME project.” Normally someone would have called this out before it was published, but it must have been missed. We’ll pass along the feedback.

[gnome@floss.social]

@ariarhythmic yeah it's being addressed https://floss.social/@gnome/116545032096699467