PS3 Emulator RPCS3 GitHub Flooded With AI-Generated Code, Devs Warn: "Stop Submitting Slop"

AI Code Invades Emulator Development

The RPCS3 team, developers of the popular PlayStation 3 emulator, have issued a blunt public statement after their GitHub was flooded with AI-generated pull requests. "Please stop submitting AI slop code pull requests to RPCS3," the team wrote. "We will start banning those who do without disclosing."

The Core Problem

The issue is not just the code itself — contributors are submitting AI-generated code they do not understand and have not debugged. As RPCS3 put it: "You can't possibly handwrite the type of shit AI slop we have been seeing." The same problem is reportedly happening across multiple open-source projects, including the Godot Engine.

An Open-Source Dilemma

The rise of AI coding tools and vibe coding culture has lowered the barrier to contributing to open-source projects. But for technically complex projects like PS3 emulation, the result is a flood of broken contributions that waste maintainer time.

The RPCS3 team suggested an "allowed contributor" list based on account age and prior contribution history as a potential solution. PS3's notoriously complex Cell architecture requires deep expertise to emulate, making low-quality AI submissions particularly counterproductive.