There seems to be a LOT of bbs people using ai to make things.
And they don't give credit to AI. Just by the interfaces and graphics
I can tell it's AI.

they usually have this cover story, 'been working on this for years, finally Had time to finish it' type stuff.

Seriously, if you are going to use AI stop making up stories and just say you are using ai.

There's these 2 or more web bbses that are obviously made with ai. atleast the Claude bbs guy gives credit. The one from stingray doesn't.

Then there's people making doorgames and other bullshit i see on the bbs Reddit.

I think if you're using ai you should give credit where credit is due.



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Re: ai shit from bbs people.
By: MRO to All on Sat Jul 04 2026 07:01 pm

There seems to be a LOT of bbs people using ai to make things. And they don't give credit to AI. Just by the interfaces and graphics I can tell it's AI.

they usually have this cover story, 'been working on this for years, finally Had time to finish it' type stuff.

Seriously, if you are going to use AI stop making up stories and just say you are using ai.

I think if you're using ai you should give credit where credit is due.

AI has allowed me to do create more things in the last year or two than I've been able to do my entire 30+ years in tech. Anything I release publicly contains info somewhere that it was created with the help of AI (I release very few things publicly, though)

The first, "biggest" project I did was I created a way to install my most commonly used tools in a bash environment in one shot. I wanted to see how crazy I could get, so I gave it a warhammer 40k theme, and named it "Slaane.sh" (In WH40K, Slaanesh is the chaos god of excess, pleasure and perfection). I was dumbfounded at how well it came up with text, fluff, and instructions that fit the WH40K style.

I started the whole thing out a pretty simple prompt that went something along the lines of "you're installed on a system, this is the bash envirornment. make it portable, and modular" Then I came up with the "slaane.sh" idea, and started bolting things on from there.

However, I purposely beat it into submission, because it wanted to add info about Cursor, and later Claude to every git commit, just about every file, etc. It was irritating.

the contributors on github are me, and claude. and the second line of the readme says (in a WH40K style):

*Manifesto:* This unholy creation was wrong entirely by cogitators. (AI-assisted development). The Machine Spirit has been consulted, and it is pleased.

https://github.com/daitengu/slaane.sh


That said, I'm with you to a point. I find a lot of people who use AI to make things these days submit large amounts of "slop" (I may be included in that group). I think these projects/submissions should have clear notifications if that's the case. But then again, there are others like DM and Deuce that lean heavily on LLMs to design and write huge amounts of code in a very short time, They can do in a week what would have taken them months just to get in a working order. They can see whan an AI is starting to go off the rails when designing or writing something and generally don't just skim over the code assuming it's all correct, they know what they're looking at. (I'm thinking of SyncDOOM as a great example here)

So, to tl;dr this: I think for the most part AI-generated projects, especially by people who aren't senior-level programmers are pretty obvious when you dig into them for about 5 minutes. There's a certain stigma attached to using AI to help you write stuff (I definitely felt it in the beginning), but as it become more acceptable I think you're going to see a lot more "credit" given. especially since, as you said, it's so easy to identify.

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Re: ai shit from bbs people.
By: DaiTengu to MRO on Sun Jul 05 2026 01:12 pm

Re: ai shit from bbs people.
By: MRO to All on Sat Jul 04 2026 07:01 pm

There seems to be a LOT of bbs people using ai to make things. And they don't give credit to AI. Just by the interfaces and graphics I can tell it's AI.

AI has allowed me to do create more things in the last year or two than I've been able to do my entire 30+ years in tech. Anything I release

I think it should just be assumed (and really, not judged) that AI is going to be used by anyone serious about development. It's like saying "I used a computer to make this", well, yeah, that's assumed. You used the Internet, an editor (maybe), a compiler, library manager, linker, build/project manager, etc. as well. Just add AI to the list. I don't think disclaimers are needed.
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Re: ai shit from bbs people.
By: Digital Man to DaiTengu on Sun Jul 05 2026 02:39 pm

I think it should just be assumed (and really, not judged) that AI is going to be used by anyone serious about development. It's like saying "I used a computer to make this", well, yeah, that's assumed. You used the Internet, an > editor (maybe), a compiler, library manager, linker, build/project manager,
etc. as well. Just add AI to the list. I don't think disclaimers are needed. >

I think there should be a disclaimer if you have a co-contributer. I don't Think AI should be considered just a tool.

with ai you could be getting plagarized information, and in some cases perhaps It would violate the licensing of the old product or yours.


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Re: ai shit from bbs people.
By: Digital Man to DaiTengu on Sun Jul 05 2026 02:39 pm

There seems to be a LOT of bbs people using ai to make things. And
they don't give credit to AI. Just by the interfaces and graphics I
can tell it's AI.

I think it should just be assumed (and really, not judged) that AI is going to be used by anyone serious about development. It's like saying "I used a computer to make this", well, yeah, that's assumed. You used the Internet, an editor (maybe), a compiler, library manager, linker, build/project manager, etc. as well. Just add AI to the list. I don't think disclaimers are needed.

I agree, AI is just another tool at our disposal.
I mostly use AI to find things quicker, or Recently I had AI help create a windows background.
I actually a few months back, wrote a song about the BBS life in the 80's and 90's, I then had AI as my band and used an AI voice to sing it.
It turned out pretty good.

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Re: ai shit from bbs people.
By: MRO to Digital Man on Sun Jul 05 2026 08:27 pm

with ai you could be getting plagarized information, and in some cases perhaps It would violate the licensing of the old product or yours.

With human co-contributors you can get plagarized information too. Just assume AI is going to be used more often than not. And if AI isn't being used (at all? Not even for code review or testing?) - then I wouldn't think the project is very serious.
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