Board:   [DoveNet] DoveNet General Chat
Subject: Re: ai shit from bbs peop
From:    DaiTengu
Date:    Wed Oct 14, 2026 11:34

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  Re: Re: ai shit from bbs peop
  By: MRO to Boraxman on Tue Oct 13 2026 08:11 pm

 MR> I will repeat myself because that's what i do.

 Boy, howdy do you. (as do I!)

 MR> My problem with ai is that it takes the work of real people and gives no
 MR> credit in most cases. it's trained itself on the work of humans, it uses
 MR> github and other sources.  People who use it think they are project
 MR> managers, which i think is sad.

 You're not entirely wrong here, but you are wrong to a point. AI is really fancy autocorrect/text prediction. Once a model is trained (yes, using vast swaths of existing data, github, books, etc.), it takes the active context and spits out responses word-by-word ("token by token", really), based on what its algorithms indicate would be the next-most-likely-word.  That word/token can be "spatchcock" or it can be "posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np" all based on the context.

The programs/wrappers that people use to interact with these models (and the "thinking" layers built into many of them) attempt to ensure that its responses make sense before they're written to the screen.

 MR> There's also people going around pretending to be programmers and putting
 MR> out games and programs.  there's some in the bbs world.  they can't
 MR> program a lick.

 Hey, that's me!

 MR> all of a sudden they are digging up something they said
 MR> they worked on years ago.  and then there's 5 other things.  it's obvious
 MR> it was made in AI.

 I think shaming people for using AI leads to this. A few years ago I was inclined to avoid mentioning I used AI when working on a project, (I don't think I released any "public" projects during that time) but now I'm perfectly happy to put that notification everywhere.

 MR> Last weekend i had ai make me an irc to telegram bridge because i wanted
 MR> to gravitate away from the teleirc model i was using.  i know it stole
 MR> from that and other sources but no credit was given.  on top of that i
 MR> paid for claude to do it.

 Honestly, 10-15 years before AI most people just copied and pasted from StackOverflow.  Once in awhile you'd find a comment in the source code like "I grabbed this from StackOverflow".  Most programming languages are ... structured. If you want to print somethingto a screen, there's only so many ways you can do that. It's not like writing a story, or drawing a picture.


I DEFINTELY have issues with AI- generated images, videos, and especially posts/stories that pass themselves off as being from humans.  But Idon't have much of an issue with it when it comes to programming.

....A child of 5 could understand this!  Fetch me a child of5.

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