"However, its creator - who we are intentionally not naming or tagging here - received so much harassment from LLM boosters that they removed the repository, and indeed their Bluesky account, stating that they would withdraw from social media for a while. Now, if you try to visit the original URL, you will receive only a 404 message. All is not lost, though."
"Although it contained human-readable text, it was a Git repository, and so it was possible to fork it - clone its contents into another different repository. Several people did so before the original OpenSlopware creator deleted it again, such as this Small-Hack version, also on Codeberg. The Register has contacted the maintainer of this fork and asked if they'd talk to us about it, but so far, they say they're still thinking about it."
OpenSlopware was a Codeberg repository listing free and open-source projects that use LLM-generated code, integrate LLMs, or show signs of coding assistants in pull requests and modifications. Harassment from LLM boosters led the creator to delete the repository and their Bluesky account, leaving the original URL returning a 404. The Git nature of the repository allowed several people to fork and clone its contents into new repositories, including a Small-Hack fork on Codeberg. Some maintainers plan to preserve and consolidate copies despite apologies from original contributors. A growing movement criticizes LLM bot usage and increasingly uses the term "slop" to describe such output.
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