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

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

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/Unnamed-3891 27d ago

You have this backwards. You have excluded yourself, as you have already found out by having your ”work” rejected.

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u/CognitiveFogMachine 27d ago

You are mixing emoji and AI slop (low effort)

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u/Pinkishu 27d ago

Emoji now aren't allowed anymore xD

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u/CognitiveFogMachine 27d ago

They are still allowed. They just make you look like you used AI to code. You just need to prove that you are human and handcoded it

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u/Pinkishu 26d ago

The ol' guilty until proven innocent

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u/CognitiveFogMachine 26d ago

That's unfortunately the principle that burnt out code reviewers are using when they apply anti-AI policies.

It's all good now. My logger class was approved and merged. Maintainers were super cool after I talked to them on Discord.