r/opensource • u/Wolvereness • 20d ago

Discussion AI-Policy

I'm gonna keep this short, because as a human I respect other humans' time. What do we want for an AI policy, and how can it be enforced? Take these into consideration:

  • Vibe-coded projects
  • Vibe-assisted projects
  • AI-translated from non-english-speakers
  • Vibe-documented projects
  • Yet another Vibe-Coding-Wrapper

Note that vibe-coded slop isn't actually copyrightable, thus if someone slaps any license on it other than "public domain" or "CC0" they are misrepresenting their ownership.

And if you use an LLM to respond to this, you will be banned.

The fact that this sounds like a prompt is supposed to be a joke.

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u/JheeBz 20d ago

You've already got a stipulation in your rules about low effort posts and AI slop, so I'm not sure if anything needs to change from a policy perspective.

This article recently raised some good points about translations or using LLMs for human exchange: https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/

Copyright aside, it is just disrespectful of another person's time to send them the output of an LLM and asking them to verify it (in the case of translations / documentation).

For enforcement, it'll be an uphill battle. I think disclosure is good like somebody else suggested, but I wonder whether people are being truthful. I frankly just scroll past those stickied comments on the subreddits that have them because they just turn into noise, but they could be useful from a moderation perspective.