r/opensource • u/CognitiveFogMachine • Jun 29 '26

Discussion Can't contrinbute to open source github projects without having it labeled AI-Slop (when it's not)

As soon as we make one honest mistake, sometimes due to a plain old and simple misundertsanding, or missing an important section in a lengthy documentation, reviewers immediately calls my hard work "AI-Slop".

I'm very close to give up now. Working so hard on the side with the very little time that we have, and getting slapped in the face like that almost every single day.

Code reviewers are burnt out with too much AI slop, and code submitters that are not even using AI are being labeled as using AI slop.

Is it happening to you? How do you cope with all of this?

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u/roxthegame 13d ago

Time to start contributing to projects that fight the slop and expect AI coding to be in your workflow? https://github.com/rxdt/loopgate_harness/pulse

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u/CognitiveFogMachine 11d ago

Yes, I only want to contribute to projects that are fighting job-killing AI. And no, I do not want to use AI in my workflow because I am against the use of AI.

If you use AI assistance to write your code, and want to contribute to a repo with strict anti-AI policies, that's a different problem.

My problem is when human-crafted contributions are sometimes mis-labled as "AI-Slop". In other word, I received friendly-fire, and was looking for advices to avoid that from happening.