The RPCS3 team has had enough. They are now publicly speaking up and asking users to stop submitting AI-generated code to their GitHub page. These are the developers behind one of the most advanced PlayStation 3 emulators available, yet they are reportedly being overwhelmed with low-quality pull requests.
RPCS3 has been working to make a significant portion of the PS3 library playable on PC since 2011. There is no doubt that this is an extremely technical and demanding project, which is why the recent wave of AI-generated submissions has become especially frustrating for the people trying to maintain it.
“AI Slop” Is Creating More Work, Not Less
The developers openly called out users on X, saying they should stop submitting what they described as “AI slop code pull requests,” even warning that users who continue doing it could eventually get banned. The issue is not just about code quality, but also the contributors’ lack of understanding of the code they are sending in. Developers still have to review and reject these submissions one by one, which wastes time instead of contributing something actually useful. Because of this, the team encouraged users to spend time properly learning programming instead of relying entirely on AI tools.
The post also received backlash from users defending AI-assisted coding, and the developers became noticeably less polite in some of their responses. One reply in particular gained attention online after the team pointed out that the problems in the submissions were so obvious that they could immediately identify them as AI-generated at a glance.
A Growing Problem Across Open Source
The indications of this problem are much broader, because RPCS3 isn’t alone here. It can be remembered that Godot Engine also raised similar concerns about their GitHub being flooded with AI-generated pull requests, which only created more noise for maintainers to deal with.
AI coding tools have become widely accessible, and the open-source community is now asking a question that’s harder to answer: do they really make the job easier, or are they just creating another problem?
