Our worst nightmares are becoming true indeed..
>Our worst nightmares are becoming true indeed
Agree completely with you, but most of the time this isn't people being altruistic.
It's people spraying bullshit at maintainers to try and score "CVE IDs as trophies" for their résumé or payouts from the vendor-backed Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) program on HackerOne.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/09/23/curl-joins-the-reborn...
If the rebellious spirit of the 1990s and early 2000s still existed, open source could sink "AI" code laundromats within a month. But since 2010 everyone is falling over themselves to please big tech. Big Tech now rewards the cowards with layoffs and intimidation.
Most developers do not understand that power balances in corporations work on a primal level. If you show fear/submission, managers will treat you like a beta dog. That is all they understand.
It's nothing critical, but still both scary and hilarious at the same time. Shit on the input, shit on the output - nothing new, just fancier tools.
Asimov's vision of history so tangled and noisy that no one really knows what is truth and what is a legend is happening in front of our own eyes. It didn't need millennia, just a few years of AI companies abusing our knowledge that was available for anyone for free.
And it's already happened, of course. A project I saw mentioned here on HN a while back seemed interesting, and it was exactly that kind of disaster. They started off as a fork of another project, so had a working codebase. But the project lead is a grade-A asshole who gets off on being grumpy to people, and considers any ideas not his to be ridiculous. Their kernel guy is an actual moron; his output is either (clearly) LLM output or just idiocies. Even the side contributors are 100% chatbot pasters.