Open-source dev teams have been fighting a rising tide of AI slop contributions ever since LLM tech was loosed upon the Earth, as we documented earlier this year with news that free and open-source game engine Godot was buckling under the weight of AI-generated pull requests (or PRs—that is, code contributions asking to be ‘pulled’ into the main project).
Well, here’s another one. As spotted by GamingOnLinux, popular PS3 emulator RPCS3 has had to come out swinging against the number of LLM-generated pull requests currently being submitted to the project. In a post on X, the devs put it plain: “Please stop submitting AI slop code pull requests to RPCS3. We will start banning those who do without disclosing.
The final result is a new set of hard-and-fast rules about AI code right there on RPCS3’s GitHub repo: “Use of AI tools for research and reverse engineering purposes is permitted. However, contributors are expected to fully own and understand all code they submit. Any communication with the team—including code, code comments, and GitHub comments—must come from the human contributor, not an AI agent acting autonomously.”
Back on X, the team signed off with a final message: “As for all the AI bros seething on our socials, we’re simply blocking you. Learn how to debug, code, and leave behind something useful to humanity when you’re gone, instead of peddling slop.”
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