Nov 12, 2026, 4:55 AMPart of why I'm always mad about slop in OSS is that we should know better. Slop goes against OSS even at a very basic libertarian myopic focus on "the four freedoms." I expect this shit from proprietary development, and I expect OSS communities to suck at ethics outside that myopia, but slop betrays the one fucking thing OSS purports to be about.
We should be better than this *by construction*.
Nov 12, 2026, 5:00 AMLike, at *best* the output of an LLM is just that, output. It's not open source because it's not even *source*. That's one of the three letters in OSS, for fuck's sake!
More to the point, though, slop code can't be understood in the way that "the four freedoms" require, instead forcing you to depend on the closed-source slop machine. And no, "open weights" doesn't cut it. You wouldn't call a random-ass *.exe "open opcodes," would you?
Nov 12, 2026, 5:02 AMOpen source developers are almost the unique group that should have the expertise to realize the problems *and* a strong disincentive against using LLMs. What are we doing here, chat?