This list seems to have a lot of false positives, or at least an unhelpfully broad definition of what is considered “slopware”.

For example curl (stylised as “cURL”) is listed on that page as being “slopware” because it has a “permissive AI policy” because the developer decided against instituting a “strict non-ai policy” that dictated what development tools submitters could use..

The developer of curl (Daniel Steinberg) is generally speaking one of the most anti-AI-OSS voices on Mastodon, and has banned AI-submitted code and bug reports to curl. He has given talks including keynotes at conferences about AI slop. News articles have been written about his stance against AI:

• cURL’s Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source
• Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure “intact mental health”

If a project with a well-publicised anti-slop stance and an explicit no-AI policy is considered “slopware”, the list seems questionable.

Thanks, I was confused between lemmy.org and lemmy.ml - thought .org was the big one.

Why is lemmy.org blocked? They seem to have a lot of solarpunk-adjacent content (big Fuck Cars community). Is it just too big?