Hello,
As a forum moderator, I try to read everything here. This indeed takes a lot of time and I would rather spend it doing something else. Currently with so much debate about AI it also takes a lot of energy.
This also raises another question: who is going to read and moderate that new LLM category? I expect there would be a LOT of things posted there, since slop coding is so fast, you can have a new unmaintainable app up and running every few days. I don’t want to suffer through reading all of that. I think several of the other active moderators feel the same about it. So, the side effect may be an unmoderated category. On the topic that is the most heated currently. That doesn’t seem wise.
I also agree with Nipos that ti would establish that LLM generated/assisted code is welcome here. For me, that is very much not the case. So, I would rather vote against the category, and for a stricter ban on LLM generated things. I will also note that this is not an attack on freedom: write any app you want, do whatever you want with Haiku. Do not ask this forum to provide a platform for your advertisement. If people are so strongly unhappy about that, they can start another forum in some other place. With so much people voting for this category just so they can hide it, I would say this seems appropriate.
There is ongoing discussion in the moderator team to decide what should and shouldn’t be allowed. As x512 says, LLM-assisted code is present in a lot of software projects now, and we have to take that into account, and be consistent about whatever decision is taken (ranging from the extremes of “any LLM slop is welcome” to “no LLM use at all, let’s keep using old Mesa versions from before the LLM apocalypse”).
How convenient to handle the arguments against LLMs and discussion about the forum moderation process as “hallucinating”. After not having even bothered to read the full thread?