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The Reddit community r/opensource released new rules on local time October 24, prohibiting the posting of projects that use artificial intelligence, are made by artificial intelligence, or serve artificial intelligence, and requiring participants to be able to communicate in English. The new rules also require that submitted projects have existed for at least one year, are still actively maintained, and have multiple contributors, and will no longer accept requests to find maintainers or recruit developers. According to Solidot, the policy was announced under the title "Your tokens aren't valuable: No more AI," with the reason being that AI is incompatible with the community and that posters must be able to speak English rather than use AI translation. The policy sparked intense discussion, with some users who disagreed moving to the newly established r/trueopensource community, and subsequently new communities permitting AI also emerged, such as r/OpenSourceAIAllowed. Moderators said the policy will be adjusted in the future and is mainly aimed at AI-generated personal projects rather than well-known projects such as the Linux kernel.
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Oct 27
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Reddit open source community r/opensource announced an anti-AI policy, sparking controversy
The Reddit open source community r/opensource announced an anti-AI policy titled "Your tokens aren't valuable: No more AI", on the grounds that AI is incompatible with the community. It requires that submitted open source projects have existed for at least one year and have multiple contributors, and that posters must be able to speak English rather than using AI translation. The policy sparked intense discussion, and new communities that allow AI subsequently emerged, such as r/OpenSourceAIAllowed; the moderators said the policy will be adjusted in the future and is mainly aimed at AI-generated personal projects rather than well-known projects such as the Linux kernel.
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Reddit's r/opensource bans all AI-related projects, sparking backlash and giving rise to an opposing subreddit
The Reddit forum r/opensource has banned posts about projects that use AI, are built with AI, or are aimed at AI, with moderators saying that AI in its current form does not fit the open source community. The new rules also require projects to be at least one year old, actively maintained, and have multiple contributors, and they stop accepting non-English posts. Critics argue the rules are too broad and too vague, noting that the Linux kernel already contains AI-generated code; subsequently, an opposing forum, r/TrueOpenSource, which does not exclude AI, appeared.
Oct 26
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Reddit r/opensource's new rules ban AI projects and non-English users, splitting the developer community
The Reddit community r/opensource released new rules on local time October 24, prohibiting the posting of projects that use artificial intelligence, are made by artificial intelligence, or serve artificial intelligence, and requiring participants to be able to communicate in English. The new rules also require that submitted projects have existed for at least one year, are still actively maintained, and have multiple contributors, and will no longer accept requests to find maintainers or recruit developers. Some users who disagreed moved to the newly established r/trueopensource community.
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r/opensource bans AI-related projects, sparking fierce debate in the open-source community
Reddit's r/opensource subreddit has announced a ban on all projects that use AI, are generated by AI, or are aimed at AI, and the related announcement has received more than 2,000 comments. The new rules require that projects being promoted have a history of at least one year, have contributions from multiple people, and remain actively maintained, and they are aimed only at English speakers, on the grounds that it is difficult to distinguish AI-generated text from translation. The controversy also notes that the Linux kernel recently allowed AI involvement without labeling, while Linus Torvalds called rules banning specific tools "stupid."
Oct 25
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r/opensource Subreddit's New Rules Ban AI Projects and Non-English Users
Reddit's r/opensource subreddit has published new submission rules banning projects that use AI, are generated by AI, or are aimed at AI, stating that AI is incompatible with the open source community. The new rules also require projects to have existed for at least one year, have active maintenance and multiple contributors, and effectively bar non-English users from participating; these rules have sparked considerable controversy and have also given rise to a competing subreddit, r/trueopensource.
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