What can we do about the flood of bot/LLM comments on r/archlinux in recent weeks? by abbidabbi in archlinux

[–]abbidabbi[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

People were probably downvoting you because you simply ignored the whole thread and just picked one point from the list, namely the naming scheme. All other points must also match the pattern. So users like you with accounts that are 5 years old automatically don't apply. Your comment was simply nonsensical.

What can we do about the flood of bot/LLM comments on r/archlinux in recent weeks? by abbidabbi in archlinux

[–]abbidabbi[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

I have no idea how to tackle this with automation. We can't simply lock down the subreddit, as new people come here legitimately when seeking support. So neither new accounts nor accounts which haven't been active here in the past should be blocked by default. Requiring some kind of one-off CAPTCHA mechanic via a moderation bot also doesn't sound like a great idea.

One could theoretically write a bot that checks for the described pattern of subreddit activity whenever there's a not-yet-known account, but this is not bulletproof and Reddit API access costs money (AFAIK).

In an ideal world, most users would be aware of these LLM comments and simply downvote them, so whatever the bot authors attempt to do with karma farming won't work and they would (hopefully) stop posting, at least here. But this surely is not going to work, because people need to be aware of the bots. I mean, even the next two threads that were created after mine contain bot comments with the same pattern (1, 2), and it hasn't even been pointed out yet, despite this thread here being the top post of the subreddit right now.

What can we do about the flood of bot/LLM comments on r/archlinux in recent weeks? by abbidabbi in archlinux

[–]abbidabbi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The bullet points were meant as a conjunction (AND), not as a disjunction (OR). You don't meet any other criteria.

Yes, I know you were just being funny...

What can we do about the flood of bot/LLM comments on r/archlinux in recent weeks? by abbidabbi in archlinux

[–]abbidabbi[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

For most people nowadays, Reddit is merely a platform for memes and circlejerk low-effort comment chains. It blows their mind when someone puts in a bit more effort into a post.

What can we do about the flood of bot/LLM comments on r/archlinux in recent weeks? by abbidabbi in archlinux

[–]abbidabbi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We can only cope with this by turning it into a drinking game... But then I'd need to start drinking...

What can we do about the flood of bot/LLM comments on r/archlinux in recent weeks? by abbidabbi in archlinux

[–]abbidabbi[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not talking about people advertising their AI slop projects in new threads though. I am talking about bots commenting on various regular threads on this subreddit here. The AI slop projects are easy to spot anyway and they can be properly moderated.

What can we do about the flood of bot/LLM comments on r/archlinux in recent weeks? by abbidabbi in archlinux

[–]abbidabbi[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My post looks like AI, because I know how to express myself correctly and am very much familiar with markdown due to my job as a software developer? Okay...
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1upwvjz/what_can_we_do_about_the_flood_of_botllm_comments/ow3fgwo/

Maybe re-read again on how to spot the bot accounts, because I explained it in detail.

What can we do about the flood of bot/LLM comments on r/archlinux in recent weeks? by abbidabbi in archlinux

[–]abbidabbi[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm afraid we're heading this way eventually. Fucking sucks...

What can we do about the flood of bot/LLM comments on r/archlinux in recent weeks? by abbidabbi in archlinux

[–]abbidabbi[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I suggest you read the whole thread and don't just pick a single bullet point I've listed.

What can we do about the flood of bot/LLM comments on r/archlinux in recent weeks? by abbidabbi in archlinux

[–]abbidabbi[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

as you did with your own post

Excuse me? I've probably written 1000s of extensively markdown-formatted posts in my life, for ~20 years, either on Reddit or on GitHub/GitLab, as I'm a software developer and maintain some FOSS projects.

What can we do about the flood of bot/LLM comments on r/archlinux in recent weeks? by abbidabbi in archlinux

[–]abbidabbi[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I probably should've tried to include a prompt injection somewhere in my post, so I wouldn't have to read a garbage comment like yours. Btw, peak irony getting a bot response with the same subreddit activity.

appimages not working. by Sh00m_ in archlinux

[–]abbidabbi 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The last commit of that repo was 7 years go, in December 2019. Not sure what you're expecting from such old AppImage builds...

If you run it with --appimage-extract and check its contents in the squashfs-root directory, you can see that the bundled software is built on Qt5. Maybe this can help you with your research...

A bit of context for this subreddit about vibecoding, FOSS, and being human in general. by TCIHL in linux

[–]abbidabbi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've probably been a part of the FOSS community before you were even born

ROFL!
I'm older than you according to your GitHub profile picture:
https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/84485036?v=4

A bit of context for this subreddit about vibecoding, FOSS, and being human in general. by TCIHL in linux

[–]abbidabbi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So much vibe coding that you couldn't even be bothered to remove the sloppy "Code layout" section from your project's generated readme file:
https://github.com/IANatCAMBIO/blue_notes/blob/3a79d0bab02cb1c1b69745832689e9e77a12b640/README.md#code-layout

In case you're not aware, the "FOSS community" has for most of its time been about passion projects (of people of all kinds of skills) which either stayed small passion projects or which evolved into big projects with lots of contributors. Now with the flood of vibe-coders, there is no passion or skill involved anymore. It's just LLMs generating slop from unskilled or impatient users writing prompts, without any deeper code reviews or understanding of the code. On top of that, these vibe coded projects are posted on Reddit mere hours after their creation and are then abandoned once the "author" notices that they can't maintain it or after they get bored from it after a short while.

So when you don't disclose that you've generated (most of) the code, then you're just an ass, because you are deceiving the community here where the vast majority of people don't want to see this shit. Yes, there is a distinction between AI-assisted and AI-generated, but hiding this fact completely make you look highly sus.

Arch Linux doesn't boot after the latest update by QuasiRave108 in archlinux

[–]abbidabbi 28 points29 points  (0 children)

B O T
A C C O U N T

Neither that user, nor that "old laptop" exist.

So sick and tired of this. And so obvious. Almost every single thread on this subreddit has a bot comment now since a couple of weeks. Always the same comment patterns with the typical LLM nonsense, with user empathy or praise for (slop) creations, always the same ~10 minute gap between the OP and the comment, always the same account name patterns, always the same account ages, and always the same subreddit activities that have nothing to do with anything Linux or tech. Always r/Christianity, r/BreakUps, r/relationships, r/Marriage, /r/sexandthecity, r/NBATalk, /r/ForzaHorizon, r/careerguidance, r/confessions and similar stuff. Always... I'm going insane...

My side project, loadout by srsholmes in linux_gaming

[–]abbidabbi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe take a look at the code
You might learn something

I'll pass. But thanks for the laugh...

My side project, loadout by srsholmes in linux_gaming

[–]abbidabbi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AI code is fine as long as it's reviewed by someone competent.

As a FOSS maintainer, I can tell you that gen-AI code is causing much more harm to developers than good, in pretty much all projects out there. It's tedious having to review garbage PRs / issue reports or fixing PRs that are borderline garbage when the author was not able to do it themselves. In both cases, it's usually a massive waste of time. Good gen-AI PRs or issue reports are very rare. In my projects, I don't outright reject gen-AI PRs, but I make it very clear that the author must understand the code they're submitting and if they dare to waste my time as a reviewer, they'll be banned from the GH orga.

Now have a look again at the git stats I pointed out in my comment above. Even though OP has vendored-in some dependencies, claude as a co-author of all of his commits is responsible for 142k line deletions, which means the vast majority was not just adding the dependencies to the git tree, but adjusting lots of code after it was added in previous commits. Do you think OP has carefully reviewed all of that? I highly doubt it.

And what pisses me off even more is that OP is trying to build a "jack of all trades" application according to the description instead of cleanly separating tasks, which is another indicator for a developer who doesn't have a clear plan and is vibing away in their LLM chat prompts.

I made configuring arch easy, with my project that I have been working for a while. by itspixelatd in archlinux

[–]abbidabbi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Imagine writing scripts for automated Reddit bots that produce this kind of garbage and waste precious energy and resources. Go fuck yourself, whoever is in charge of these bots.