Been banned for AI-Slop on a few subs here on Lemmy as well as on Reddit.
I always provide a good amount of technical detail in my posts and i try to be as transparant and communicative about the details. My projects are very complicated and I try to document them well.
my project is pretty cryptography-heavy... the act of me sharing my efforts in an attempt to show transparency... but it is used against my project by calling it AI-slop (undermining Kerkhoff's principles).
It's 2026 and most developers are using AI. I have used it to create things like formal proof and verification.
my project is aimed to be a secure messaging app. i have all the bells-and-whistles there along with documentation.... but if the conversation cant move past "its AI-generated"... then it seems the cryptography/cybersecurity/privacy community isnt aligned with the fact that using AI is now common practice for developers of all levels.
AI is a tool. you cant (and shouldnt) "trust" AI to do anything without oversight. AI does not replace the due-diligence that has always been needed. i dont "trust" my hammer to bash in a nail... i "use" the hammer. AI is not different in how you need to be responsible for how its used.
i've busted my ass on my project for it to be called AI slop. i think its completely fine when it comes from folks in the community. cryptography is a serious subject and my ideas and implementation SHOULD/MUST be scrutinised... but its simply ignorant if mods are banning me for the quality of my work considering the the level of transparency and my engagement on discussions about it.
It's a bit reductive to call it slop. I think i try harder than most in providing links, code and documentation. Of course I used AI... and it's clearer for it. (you can find more detail on my profile)
i am of course sour from being banned, but am i wrong to think my code isnt AI slop? Some parts of my project are clearly lazy-ui... but im not sharing on some UI/UX/design sub. the cryptography module has unit tests and formal verification. if that is AI-slop and can result in me being banned, i simply dont have faith in that community to be objective on the reality of where AI can contribute.
while its understandable people dont want to review AI-slop... i think the cryptography/cybersecurity community needs to get on board with the idea of using AI to help in reviewing such code. am i wrong? is the future of cryptography is still people performing manual review of the breathtaking volumes of AI code?
I think you need to speak to a mental health specialist, because AI psychosis can be really destructive. We all have problems, but using chat bots to make us feel better is dangerous for you and those around you, even if it feels good in the moment. These bots are designed to tell you exactly what you want to hear so that you become addicted to them.
I'm going to guess you didn't accomplish much as a software engineer before AI? The personal deficiencies at the core of that are still there even if you use AI to tell you otherwise. I won't speculate what those deficiencies are, but I just want you to engage in some honest introspection. Absolutely nobody will trust someone like you to handle such a sensitive topic like cryptography. Stop wasting your short time on this earth on something so stupid. Go make literally anything else.
wow thats deep analysis and advice. i generally think i do well.
i work on my project and cryptography because its interesting. i worked with cryptography long before AI... but like a "regular" developer on a sideproject, im going to use AI.
i actively seek advice about the code in my project. i only share my work after ive put what i think is enough time and effort. it clearly isnt enough that the project "works". in cybersec its important for code to be audited or reviewed, that fundamentally isnt an option on a project like mine unless i share something that is described as "AI-slop". that feedback is fine. it's important that its open source.
it might not be fun for most, but this is something i work on because its enjoyable to me. its open source for transparency and critisism. i just want to take "AI" as a critisism, off the table because i cant quantify my involvement... which is a understandably wild thing to ask so i try to approach it with caution.
i work on several project that interest me. many but not all are open source. they exist because i woke up some day and decided i wanted to create something.
What are some of your engineering or research accomplishments? Where is your linkedin or github profile showing projects before ~2022?
What kind of work did you do with cryptography? It couldn't have been much if you don't see what's wrong with what you're doing. "I set up LetsEncrypt on a web server" doesn't count as experience.
Any answer you provide to these questions are worthless unless you're willing to reveal your identity here. That's the only way to build any credibility, and without credibility nobody should trust you with something like this.
No, this is something you're working on because you're hoping to make money from it. I remember you posting about this project some months ago and you mentioned as much. If it isn't AI psychosis, then it's a grift and you're a snake oil salesman. Idk what you're expecting to hear? This is a programming community; it's probably the last place you'll get positive feedback for this obvious trainwreck.