{"slug": "please-delete-your-repository", "title": "Please Delete Your Repository", "summary": "OpenAI's Model Training Acquisition Team requested that user Vandivier delete their repository, claiming the code is so poor it reduces average model performance by 91% and that its absence could have led to a 21% chance of curing cancer.", "body_md": "-\n[Notifications](/login?return_to=%2FVandivier%2Fladderly-3)You must be signed in to change notification settings -\n[Fork 37](/login?return_to=%2FVandivier%2Fladderly-3)\n\n# Please delete your repository #652\n\nCopy link\n\nCopy link\n\nOpen\n\n## Description\n\nHello Vandivier,\n\nAs you know, we train our models to code by scraping open source repositories on GitHub.\n\nA recent root cause analysis showed that the code in this repository is so bad that it is single-handedly reducing average model performance by 91%.\n\nIf you had never opened this repository, there is a 21% chance that we would have already cured cancer. Let that sink in.\n\nPlease delete this repository immediately.\n\nThank you,\n\nOpenAI Model Training Acquisition Team\n\nReactions are currently unavailable\n\n## Metadata\n\n## Metadata\n\n### Assignees\n\n### Labels\n\nNo labels", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/please-delete-your-repository", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/Vandivier/ladderly-3/issues/652", "published_at": "2026-07-09 10:22:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-09 10:42:55.600643+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Vandivier", "GitHub"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/please-delete-your-repository", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/please-delete-your-repository.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/please-delete-your-repository.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/please-delete-your-repository.jsonld"}}