Should we ban AI BOTs here?

[awaw...@gmail.com]

This post by an AI BOT (along with the +1 below and the repo behind) is utter spam and of disgusting low quality.

I find crap from BOTs whether in the form of posts, comments, or PRs an insult, and a genuine attack on our community.

While the BOT issue here in go-nuts is still relatively mild, and I understand the Go team may not have much resources to spare on this mostly unofficial forum, I'd like to raise this issue proactively before it's too late.

[christoph...@gmail.com]

How to objectively distinguish between BOT contribution and none BOT contributions ?

It looks like an open door to arbitrary discrimination. 

Note also that there may be bad human contributors and valuable BOT contributions.  

The real problem is the cost of reviewing the quality of contributions to sort out the bad ones. The Brandolini law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law) comes in effect. 

I thus strongly disagree to reject contributions just because they're are made by BOTs or AI.  First because it will become more and more difficult to decide which one is which, and second this does not efficiently pushes toward the real goal which is to enhance the quality of the contribution and the product. 

[Wojciech S. Czarnecki]

02/14/2026 07:07:02Z, awaw...@gmail.com wrote:
> I find crap from BOTs whether in the form of posts, comments, or PRs an
> insult, and a genuine attack on our community.

https://github.com/search?q=author%3Aclaude&type=commits&s=author-date&o=desc
https://github.com/search?q=author%3Aclaude+%22..%2F..%22+in%3Abody&type=commits&s=author-date&o=desc

Not only on ours, it is a sorcerer's apprentice in yhe✸ cave of world's security. Recently way more security bugs are commited by each of these half-bakeg quarterinteligent bots per minute than a single protein based reviewer can read in a year. Read I said.

Now these bots are fully capable of spreading slander about protein based developer who dare to block them:

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

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^^o^^ OHIR-RIPE

[Wojciech S. Czarnecki]

> How to objectively distinguish between BOT contribution and none BOT
> contributions ?

1. Look for typso and uncanny grammar.
2. Look very carefully into the compound conditionals for jarring
backdoors, err, bugs. Protein attackers are way more subtle.

Hope this helps,

[a.ko...@gmail.com]

The problem is that you still need to know how to use a bot or agent... many haven't yet learned how to use them properly and wouldn't want to cause any damage. They're simply trusted too much for now...

[Roland Müller]

May be OT but reminds me on a novel from polish writer Stanislaw Lem that I read in german a long time ago.

STOP READING IF NOT INTERESTED IN LITERATURE :-)

the novel is telling about a test flight with spaceship. The task of the commander named Pirx is to evaluate the crew consisting of humans and humanoid robots. 

He did not know who is human o robot and who not to be unbiased. 

Here are Wikipedia links to the novel / its collection in PL, EN and DE. Unfortunately, the English page lacks of a dedicated entry to "The Test".

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opowie%C5%9Bci_o_pilocie_Pirxie#Test

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Pirx_the_Pilot

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_Pirx#Test

For another part of the Pirx novel collection this can be found in the English page. The basic conclusion of Lem is expressed here too. This may not match your opinion but I think the story itself is still  interesting.

> In a way, Pirx is as an ordinary "working man" who unlike traditional heroic space pilots has little if anything heroic about him. 

> He sometimes finds himself in extreme situations, which he overcomes mostly through ordinary common sense and average luck. 

> In particular, in the story The Inquest, Lem puts forth the idea that what is perceived a human weakness is in fact an advantage over a perfect machine. 

> In this tale Pirx defeats the robot, because a human can hesitate, make wrong decisions, have doubts, but a robot cannot

So long and sorry for OT spam!

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Books? What’s a book? I only learn from TikTok. 

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[Jason E. Aten]

Tales of Pirx the Pilot sounds very amusing. Thank you, Roland, for the recommendation.

[Roland Müller]

😂

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