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?
Did you develop the spec by hand or is AI also involved in the spec development?
As far as I am not pleased with garbage proofs that these AI likes to write, it is still better than garbage spec…
I suspect your formal proof refers to the following files: https://github.com/positive-intentions/signal-protocol/tree/staging/formal-proofs
It contains 6 files each with less than 100 lines of code, and the claim seems to be it almost prove the entire security of the signal protocol.
Unless the formal proof community has advanced so much without me knowing, then I think you can definitely submit a paper to top PL conferences. Since my best known state of the art is Signal* from project everest. It involves tens of components, and years of works for top academics and proof engineers.
Each file here, like
fstar/Impl.Signal.Core.fstwould already be longer than your entire proof, even just the hints provided to the SMT solvers are longer than your entire proof.So I am interested in what technique did you apply to acheive the almost same effect as this monumental project with less than 5% of the code?