PlayStation 3 Emulator Team RPCS3 Tells Users to Stop Flooding GitHub with AI Slop

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 has earned much praise thanks to its rapid pace in emulating the complex Cell CPU architecture since its initial release in 2011, but the open source nature of the project means that virtually anybody can contribute to it. While that would normally be a strength, it has created a problem for the core RPCS3 team, since it now means numerous pull requests and submissions to the project are the result of AI-generated coding. Since these submissions are being made by people who have no genuine understanding of the code they're submitting, the RPCS3 team is decrying them as "generating slop you don't understand and that doesn't work," and implored those responsible to "stop submitting AI slop code pull requests to RPCS3."

In follow-up comments, the RPCS3 team cited times where those PRs got through and caused major regressions in emulation performance or compatibility ...