PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs

The people behind RPCS3, the fan-made program that lets people play PlayStation 3 games on other devices, finally hit their limit and posted the politest possible version of “please stop sending us garbage”. Their target: waves of AI-written code submissions on GitHub that allegedly don’t work, aren’t understood by the people sending them, and waste everyone’s time. Then came the replies, where the gloves came off. The team’s brutal line — “You can’t possibly handwrite the type of shit AI slop we have been seeing” — instantly became the main event.

And honestly? The comments were ready with popcorn. One big mood in the community was, of course this is happening here. People said game emulation attracts eager, half-technical fans desperate to make their favorite games run better, and AI gives them a shiny “help” button without the pesky step of knowing what they’re doing. Others piled on with real-world experience, saying even the fanciest chatbots completely face-plant when asked to deal with the PlayStation 3’s famously messy, hard-to-understand guts.

But there was also some genuine debate under the dunking. A few commenters wondered how much of this junk is being tossed over the wall completely untested, and whether popular open-source projects may need stricter gates just to survive. Another camp suggested a compromise: if you use AI, fine, but own it, label it, and take responsibility. So yes, this was a story about code — but the real spectacle was the crowd yelling, joking, and very seriously asking whether the internet has made “helping” way too easy.