Beyond Banning AI: First Empirical Look at How Open Source Communities Actually Govern GenAI Contributions

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First large-scale empirical study of how OSS communities are governing GenAI-generated contributions — not just code, but issues, PRs, code reviews, and security reports. Finds governance approaches range from outright bans to sophisticated attribution requirements, with no community consensus emerging. As GenAI-generated contributions flood open source repos, this maps the actual policy landscape builders are navigating.