Board:   [DoveNet] DoveNet General Chat
Subject: Re: ai shit from bbs peop
From:    MRO
Date:    Wed Oct 14, 2026 16:23

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  Re: Re: ai shit from bbs peop
  By: DaiTengu to MRO on Wed Oct 14 2026 10:34 am

>  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 beforethey're written to the screen.
>

i don't think it's that complicated.  several times i've asked it to make me a script and what it's made has been almost identical to existing code that i've Looked for in the past.  It's not so innocent as you portray itto be.

>  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> paidfor 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 something to a screen, there's only so many
> ways you can do that. It's not like writing a story, or drawing a picture.
>

maybe because i'm good at recognizing patterns. i don't see it as only one way to make a wheel. it's straight up ripping off existing code from real people Without giving credit.

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

It needs to cite its sources.  It does not do that by default.

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