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1. mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 02:55:17 JST mhoye

   Well, that didn't take long. We're starting to see almost-believable autogenerated text being used so spam our issue tracker.

   There's a legitimate chance that ChatGPT and their ilk are going to kill participatory open source. How can you keep any forums open to the public, when anyone can just pour an arbitrary amount of generated garbage into them?

   How do you tell a smart but green contributor who's still learning the language from a thousand bots spewing averacitous trash?

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 03:06:21 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @mhoye Given how little collaboration there actually tends to be within projects, I'm not sure how huge of a loss this would actually be...

     That said, I've heard proof-of-work tends to be an effective means of raising costs on spammers without inconveniencing others, here's an NLnet-funded project: https://mcaptcha.org/