[offbynull]

I wonder if we'll reach a breaking point with public forges, where they'll simply reject hosting a repo if it isn't from someone with a vetted background or if it detects hallmarks of LLM slop (e.g., many commits over a short period of time or other LLM tells).

[cpeterso]

GitHub recently added new repository settings to turn off pull requests or limit them to approved contributors. The announcement doesn't mention AI agents, but that's certain relevant.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/187038

[pklausler]

GH also needs to find a way to stop AI scraping of IP.

(Or not. It might be lucrative to host some novel algorithm on GH under a license permitting its use in generative LLM results, at a reasonable per-impression fee.)

[ljm]

I think there'll be space for curated forges at some point but they're going to live on the margins like most self-hosted repos do.

You could solve it with tech by using ideas from radicle and tangled but the slop is ultimately a social problem, so you just have invite-only forges where the source of the invite is also held accountable (lobsters style).

If you want a high quality internet experience these days you have to step out of the mainstream.

[intrasight]

I think that AI will do the vetting of repos - just as humans do that now. Perhaps AI will do a better job. The only way we're gonna fight AI slop is with AI.