Indeed, a request for a short video call filters out most of the people who are looking to pad their resume with LLM-automated contributions, while adding an extra layer of welcome to genuine newbies who want to join the community.
For our situation, building a foundation of trust in our community is more important than attracting as many contributors as possible. If a one-time face-to-face introduction is infeasible, then there are many other projects to contribute to. (And this is considering that our community is all math PhDs, cryptographers, and compiler engineers; we are no strangers to neurodiversity.)
I can only speak from my perspective, as someone who's lightly neurospicy with a good serving of crippling social anxiety on top, but having to jump on a quick discord call with the maintainer of a project I was excited about wouldn't be a deterrent to me.
Yes it sucks, but it's better than not regulating whatsoever, and at least this way I could be more certain my contributions didn't get drowned out.
I'm not sure if AI can do those today, but they probably can in the near future. (probably we will be able to see obvious "that can't be human" for a while longer)
If you (or even your pet LLM) is able to set up v4l-loopback and some convincing realtime image/audio gen I think that's a signal that your PRs might be worth reading.
It already can and it’s a big problem in recruitment. But for PRs I suspect it isn’t a big concern because this filter is to weed out PR spam from people who want to invest time in the project.
Job interviewees are now routinely asked to perform silly gestures (e.g., "wave your hand in front of your face") to catch out generative video models.
The point at which an AI can convince me in a video call revolving around a complex social interaction like an introduction and discussion of interests that it's human I'm gonna go ahead and let it have the title.
Indeed, a request for a short video call filters out most of the people who are looking to pad their resume with LLM-automated contributions, while adding an extra layer of welcome to genuine newbies who want to join the community.
Maybe to neurotypical newbies. To others it's going to be a giant "fuck off".
For our situation, building a foundation of trust in our community is more important than attracting as many contributors as possible. If a one-time face-to-face introduction is infeasible, then there are many other projects to contribute to. (And this is considering that our community is all math PhDs, cryptographers, and compiler engineers; we are no strangers to neurodiversity.)
I can only speak from my perspective, as someone who's lightly neurospicy with a good serving of crippling social anxiety on top, but having to jump on a quick discord call with the maintainer of a project I was excited about wouldn't be a deterrent to me.
Yes it sucks, but it's better than not regulating whatsoever, and at least this way I could be more certain my contributions didn't get drowned out.
I'm not sure if AI can do those today, but they probably can in the near future. (probably we will be able to see obvious "that can't be human" for a while longer)
If you (or even your pet LLM) is able to set up v4l-loopback and some convincing realtime image/audio gen I think that's a signal that your PRs might be worth reading.
It already can and it’s a big problem in recruitment. But for PRs I suspect it isn’t a big concern because this filter is to weed out PR spam from people who want to invest time in the project.
Job interviewees are now routinely asked to perform silly gestures (e.g., "wave your hand in front of your face") to catch out generative video models.
The point at which an AI can convince me in a video call revolving around a complex social interaction like an introduction and discussion of interests that it's human I'm gonna go ahead and let it have the title.