Antimundo (@[email protected]) says:
Pixelfed is now using AI, and I’m stopping recommending Pixelfed to anyone.
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@antimundo/117338493301655253
#pixelfed #fediverse #AI
Good that he heard the community, but it’s not like it was hard to figure out the reception would be negative
Dansup hyped himself as a “champion of the fediverse” for taking the AP protocol and making it look like instagram. Dude has to have positive attention or he snaps at people.
Totally not shocked to see him include this crap.
Yeah my immediate thought was “took him longer than expected lmao”
Same! I loved the idea, and I’m a fan of Loops, but now I just don’t trust the guy anymore.
at this rate, finding anything that hasnt been touched by AI seems like a Sisyphean task. I don’t think theres a single OS that hasnt been affected, mobile or desktop.
Yeah, distros like Gentoo, Chimera OS, try to wall themselves off from the sloppers making their clankers do obscene things to code. However, even the dependencies are getting attacked with fancy and incorrect autocompletes like Claude, and Copilot…Its brutal out there, Zig is trying to develop itself as a handwritten coding language.
I can’t wait for the bubble to burst, and the poorly created code to be dumped in the trash.
I think haiku OS is still trying to resist. But good luck using it as a daily driver…
They also have an anti-LLM policy in place.
That’s cool, but I like Steam games
Yeah. And if it’s not in the app, it’s in the dependencies.
You cannot keep up with it anymore, so I just try to not advertise / find alternative when I discover that they are potentially vibe coded.
That sucks.
I wouldn’t recommend pixelfed before, and not going to change.
You can easily replace it with a mastodont account and you have the same features (except stories but they are bad for mental health so good riddance)
I actually plan to make a Sharkey Instance for myself as I’d like to have markdown posts. It’s something that I really miss on mastodon
Yup, big miss on mastodon instances. Akkoma also offers markdown and plenty of silly reactions, like keys, but uses a lot less frontend javascript, so it’s more friendly to browsers. I wonder if wafrn also does markdown
FFS. It was already on a line in terms of the amount of advertising and dick pics that were appearing, this just kills it. Deleted
I didn’t know there were ads. I never saw any, but I run pi-hole. As to NSFW the webclient’s filter seemed to work for me. Yes, this kills it. Never used it all that much though.
Eh… I didn’t trust it either. I want to see their anti-AI defenses before I upload any image.
Couldn’t really find what they are doing with AI. There are acceptable uses so, would prefer to know before going either way.
The Github link shows the actual code push, if you understand it. I don’t. But it looks mostly like automated tagging/cataloguing for each upload.
This sounds completely benign. Jumping ship for stuff like this is absurd.
Jumping ship for me wasn’t absurd at all but a matter of conscience and some experience with and knowledge of how enshittification works.
AI assistance in coding or accessibility is not enshittification.
This. AI can be a good tool, if used properly and with moderation.
Are you gonna jump ship off of the Linux kernel because Torvalds is allowing AI in contributions?
Listen, I understand the stance, but the rules of the game have changed for all of us, whether we like it or not. I personally cannot escape it at work, where higher ríos have gone into each clients’ codebase adding skills and other agentic configurations, getting is all on Cursor, etc. There’s still an expectation of quality, so that’s where engineering efforts go towards now, and the end result is… Not great, its a tasteless grey process that chips away at my soul, but we’re also not shipping pure slop either. The AI does genuinely help and make my life considerably easier. I cannot undo the intellectual crimes undertaken to train the AI, nor can I just not use AI without getting an earful from my employer, so I just get to play the game my way as best as possible without breaking their rules. Resistance doesn’t have to result in complete isolation, which is what dropping everything and anything touched by AI would look like if you keep at it. Learn to differentiate between AI-assisted and slop, and you’ll be happier.
I personally can escape most of it.
That doesn’t sound like the sort of ai we need to worry about. If it’s light weight, doesn’t involve 3rd parties, no privacy violations for starters.
From this PR it looks like they are doing setup for future / present “agentic coding”. Skills are markdown documents you feed to chatbot “agents” so that you can run different operations with a chatbot with the project in context so that you don’t have to include all of your preferences in the prompt when doing common actions.
If you have a blanket prohibition of slopware, you should care about this. If you don’t, then 🤷.
YES. That the threat, even if benign, of opening up explicitly to agentic slopping is real, is my feeling & understanding, thanks. I’m so glad that I have the documented historical perspective mostly from having read one book, yeah I know, but for those interested in the history I urge folks to read ‘The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI’ by Cory Doctorow.
Ah so they will be using a 3rd party chatbot. Disappointing.
I don’t really think a blanket prohibition on anything AI related is useful. This doesn’t really ring like anything problematic.
The push defines ”skills” for AI coding agents. Skills are just documentation on how to perform repeatable tasks. In this case it’s mostly defining guidance on coding convention and best practices.
So this a clear indication that
piefedpixelfed is using AI coding agents.*pixelfed
Isn’t like most development partially AI these days? Even Linux development. If the platform itself isn’t going AI, I don’t really see an issue here.
NOOOOOOOOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Daaaaaamn it. Time to delete this app.
I’m not seeing any actual AI use in the linked commit. There are some instructions for how contributors should use AI (which is honestly a good idea for every project, even if you just say “don’t,” as it can reduce the amount of low-quality nonsense that comes in), but no actual evidence that the person who pushed the commit is using AI.
I really wish people would learn what actual AI usage looks like before they called “AI” on something like this. It weakens the case when people call out actual AI usage and abuse.
dansup may be an awful person, but if he is this isn’t why.
Invitations to monetize at the expense of a product (and industry) and that of its users, (& eventually, very soon) vendors, investors & other partners and stakeholders and programmers! – enshittification – is in fact monetization. If it doesn’t seem that it has happened, that’s irrelevant because it is happening (in the absence of all due public oversight and sane, legitimate, critically necessary, transparent public regulation).
Claude writes its own skills. Or do you believe they wrote 11k lines of AI skills entirely without using AI?
People write things themselves sometimes, I don’t know what to tell you. I’ve hand-written 11k lines of code in the last few months, and a lot of that code got squashed into one commit. It’s not impossible.
Now, is it likely that it was written by AI? Sure. But I don’t see any proof, and absent any, I think that sounding the AI alarm is irresponsible.
Any alternatives?
Yeah I think Lemmy communities might be the way to be honest.
I use sharkey (a misskey fork) for that. It has a way to only show posts with images. So i can have pixelfed type when i want
Not extremely social but Nextcloud Sharing
https://nextcloud.com/sharing/Flickr, Photobucket, VSCO, [nope] ̶DeviantArt[/nope]
i would not be recommending deviantart in an anti-ai community. have you seen that platform lately?
I had not checked in to it in years so yes, thank you for the due correction.
It has AI built into it. Check out the website, halfway down.
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I somehow predicted it before
