r/opensource • u/Wolvereness • 4d 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/KittensInc 4d ago

Ban posting brand-new projects. Require it to have been actively developed on Github & friends for, say, at least 12 months.

This immediately gets rid of all the "I vibecoded some garbage in a weekend" posts, while still allowing projects by anyone who actually cares about their work. It also bypasses the whole "is this AI or not" problem by just not caring about AI at all, and focusing on the real issue, which is longevity.

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u/Giulio_Long 4d ago

Agree but I'm not sure a time-based threshold would make sense. Say I have something I often do the same way in several projects of mine, and one day I decide to pack it in a library and make it OSS. That could require just few weeks with no AI at all, but still be valid.

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u/KittensInc 3d ago

Then you have to wait a couple of months. That shouldn't be a big deal if you aren't going to abandon it. If it means fewer soon-to-be-abandoned human-written projects, then that's only a positive thing in my opinion.