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37 of 120 Surveyed Open Source Projects Have Adopted Total AI Contribution Bans
An August 28 survey found 37 total AI bans among 120 open source projects reviewed, naming GCC, QEMU, SDL, Gentoo, Zig and Ghostty, plus platform-level bans at Codeberg and Sourcehut and a Flathub policy covering code, docs, bug reports and review comments. The Linux kernel took the opposite route, requiring attribution of which LLM was used rather than prohibition. Greg Kroah-Hartman is quoted saying current tools produce results that are at least a third flat-out wrong or harmful, and the stated driver throughout is maintainer review time consumed by low-quality submissions.
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