A few comments in the announcement post thought that this was an April Fool's joke, while others argued that the post was exceptionally poorly-timed if it wasn't. The r/programming subreddit has had a ban on LLM-generated content for a while, so this wasn't an unexpected development. The community has 6.9 million members, the highest in its category, so this decision can have a serious impact on other subs as well.
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d0x360 I can understand where they're coming from and why they're doing this but I think this might be a mistake or at least a little heavy-handed in what exactly they are banning. Reply
Roland Of Gilead d0x360 said: I can understand where they're coming from and why they're doing this but I think this might be a mistake or at least a little heavy-handed in what exactly they are banning. I agree with you there. I've never used reddit! It's of no real use to me, and I've never bothered with it, even from an enthusiast point of view. With that said, given the sub/reddit and it's users have very specific offerings, I think they are right to do what they've done. That's their choice. On the other hand, I also think it's maybe a little bit of cutting your nose off to spite your face. Personally, I don't think AI is a bubble. I think it's gonna be the future. I've stayed away from using AI, or even trying it out. And I'm probably cutting my nose off to spite my face!! Stopping discussions about how an LLM/AI agent work, or how they're used, or the results of their work and passing it off as 'we do this, and you don't' so as to justify their concerns, is top heavy for me. Surely, there has to be an acknowledgement that whether it's a human coding, or AI, if the results are the same, then why would it not warrant some further discussion, and specially from a coding point of view. Can't we as humans maybe learn something from how AI does the coding? I think we have to be open to that option. My first foray into AI was a couple of weeks ago. I was finishing up on my last day in training, and thought it would be nice idea to write a Limerick for the tutor, as they were retiring. With a couple of sentences worth of prompts, It instantly gave me 4 variations, which where both hilarious and amazing to me that it did so to begin with. The next thing I did was get AI to write me code for a space invaders game, and then to sew it altogether into a launchable Python file. This was also done with about 8 prompts. The point I guess I'm making is that even someone like me, with no coding experience, can create something unique or interesting. The article referenced amateurs, but those very same armatures are the ones who are already using AI and learning how to use it effectively, whilst certain cohorts are left behind on principle. PS: For anyone raging, I completely understand that the tasks I used AI for, are essentially very simple to solve, and me not even having 0.00001% of understanding of how coding works. But do I stop using it because others disagree with the outcome. No. Reply
Pierce2623 I don’t quite get the “even Nvidia uses AI for code” of course Nvidia says they use AI for code. All Jensen is interested in is pushing AI. He literally acts like AI is the whole world. Reply
XTwizted I understand people being against AI, I get it. Unfortunately, like everything else important in the world we have zero control over it. As long as some rich executives with mega yachts and more money then they could possibly ever spend sees value in it, it's only going to move forward. The people haven't had a say in anything going on in the world in a very long time. It's all controlled by the people in power who just give us enough to make it seem like we have a say in anything going on. Here in America, we don't even get to choose the best person for the job of leading our country. We are given two choices and we are left voting for who we think is the lesser of two evils. Same thing with AI. The world is doomed boys, hang on it's gonna be a wild ride. Reply
Findecanor I have been active on online forums since the dial-up era, and admin/sysop/moderator on several. I think that regardless of the topics, sometimes you just need to narrow the scope of what is allowed on a subforum so as to keep the discussions on what the subforum is supposed to be about. I too think that recently, /r/programming hasn't really been too much about programming in particular, but has looked more like a mirror of Hacker News, with general IT-industry news. There are many other subforums on Reddit where such threads could go. Reply
Arkitekt78 Wow. Reddit banning things they dont like. Never seen that happen before… 🤣 Seriously. How is that platform still around? Reply
Arkitekt78 XTwizted said: I understand people being against AI, I get it. Unfortunately, like everything else important in the world we have zero control over it. As long as some rich executives with mega yachts and more money then they could possibly ever spend sees value in it, it's only going to move forward. The people haven't had a say in anything going on in the world in a very long time. It's all controlled by the people in power who just give us enough to make it seem like we have a say in anything going on. Here in America, we don't even get to choose the best person for the job of leading our country. We are given two choices and we are left voting for who we think is the lesser of two evils. Same thing with AI. The world is doomed boys, hang on it's gonna be a wild ride. 😭😭😭 Reply
bawood The wainwrights would be proud. Little did they realize that cars and trucks would open industries and opportunities unimagined. These types of decisions are unimaginative as well. Reply
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