Pixelfed bans AI generated contributions.

[jonathankoren@sfba.social]

@pixelfed well that’s dumb. Since when do users dictate anything?

[legit_spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al]

@alexchapman @pixelfed

The infrastructure isn't killing anything

You can tell yourself whatever you want so you can feel better about using this shit, and you can use whatever excuses you like. But just because you refuse to face reality, that doesn't mean the rest of us have to applaud your decision to ignore facts because they inconvenience you.

Every lie we tell ourselves incurs a debt to the truth, and eventually, that debt will have to be repaid.

[chainz@privacysafe.social]

@pixelfed that's great news! even in a time where vibe coding or contributions related to it are becoming more and more common even though i don't think vibe coding should be like that or should even be a thing at most but regardless that's still great news

[liquidparasyte@app.wafrn.net]

@pixelfed@mastodon.social

Sorry if people crossed a line with the feedback, but thank you for committing to this stance.

It means a lot. We need people who code with intentionality more than ever.

[chadmccullough@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@alexchapman We are here because we're happy that a project listened to their user base and decided to no longer allow AI generated code. Why, exactly, are you here?

@cuirass_entertainment @pixelfed

[alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc]

@chadmccullough Because if it were not for a few dozen anti-AI people, the dev would not have done that. And to put it into context, there's thousands of Pixelfed users, and a few dozen, maybe a couple hundred at most, are part of this anti-AI nonsense, so quite a minority. @cuirass_entertainment @pixelfed

[chadmccullough@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@alexchapman So, how do you know how many Pixelfed users wanted the project to stop using AI?

Being anti-AI is not nonsense. Its use is full of ethical issues that people like you don't seem to give a shit about, but many people just like me do give a shit about.

@cuirass_entertainment @pixelfed

[alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc]

@chadmccullough That's your view, but more people either don't give a damn or also think that AI has its uses. @cuirass_entertainment @pixelfed

[dmmickeyt@kinkycats.org]

@pixelfed

[chadmccullough@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@alexchapman Listen, use or don't use it. I don't really care. I choose not to use it or support it any way. If you want to support it, then support it. But you really need to do a better job of knowing when and where to defend your use of it. This is not the place.

@cuirass_entertainment @pixelfed

[alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc]

@chadmccullough OK then. @cuirass_entertainment @pixelfed

[linqlover@norden.social]

@pixelfed Impressive!

[abhiyantrik@mastodon.social]

@pixelfed even though there is a stronger consensus that using AI will degrade the project quality in the long term, I personally feel like we have to find middle ground. Completely abandoning AI will slow down progress. I see so many pain points in using the #pixelfed app itself. I feel, goal should be to make OSS genuine alternative to private software and taking AI's help, will help us achieve it. But doing a complete vibe coding is a no no. Tools like auto completion are really helpful tools

[wearetheprojekt@mastodon.social]

A clear contribution policy saves maintainers from reviewing work they cannot safely merge. It also tells newcomers exactly where human judgment still matters.

[justbob@kolektiva.social]

@pixelfed great, Ill unblock you

@bob

[northninja@mastodon.social]

@pixelfed Any Business that rejects Ai Im automatically a fan of !

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@alexchapman @chadmccullough @cuirass_entertainment @pixelfed

alex i glanced at your profile

you're blind?

you're not the first blind person i've met who defends AI

and i understand it. it must be such a boon for those with vision impairments

is it this that drives your position?

i think AI, if done ethically, can be a great benefit for people with disabilities

but alex, you have to understand: pushing the current AI manifestation *in general* is not the same issue. be more nuanced

[tk@f.kawa-kun.com]

@pixelfed @abhiyantrik Maybe slower progress isn't a problem if it means the result behaves as intended the first time around, and faster progress in the short term, followed by having to fix unknown bugs (many of which have already been fixed but are just being dug up by LLMs) results in slower progress in the long run. :3c

[tk@f.kawa-kun.com]

@pixelfed @abhiyantrik Also, LLMs aren't AI. ;3

[alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc]

@benroyce That and also that me and my other friends and even people that I know through Blind Information Technology Solutions (BITS) struggle to code by hand and thus AI helps us get good quality code done and thus we are making accessible programs. Also we're not just one shot prompting everything, some of our stuff we've worked on for weeks and some repos have like hundreds of tests, and not just that, we test things to make sure everything is perfect, and if something's off, we go back to the Claude window and tell it what's wrong, and what's missing or what it needs to do, even researching documentation for the NVDA screen reader and libraries that help programs interact with the screen reader APIs, and it does really well because we take the time to make it work. @chadmccullough @cuirass_entertainment @pixelfed