{"id":894362,"date":"2026-10-25T17:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/894362\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T17:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:40:12","slug":"r-opensource-just-banned-ai-non-english-speakers-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/894362\/","title":{"rendered":"r\/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mods at r\/opensource<\/a> posted new submission rules<\/a> that, among other things, banned projects that use AI. The post made Saturday evening opens by saying, \u201cIf your project uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI, it\u2019s not welcome on r\/opensource. AI, as it exists today, is incongruent to this Open Source community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new rules have set off a firestorm in the comments, and even spurred the creation of a rival sub r\/trueopensource<\/a>. Moderator Wolvereness has waded into the comments to explain that there\u2019s nuance and room for selective enforcement, such as \u201csoftware that incidentally has accessibility features that use AI,\u201d including automatic captioning. But that hasn\u2019t slowed complaints from the community who feel the new rules are too broad, misguided, or vague. Many have pointed out that the Linux kernel now contains some AI-generated code, and so projects using it could be banned under the new rules.<\/p>\n

While the AI ban is getting most of the attention, mods are placing other restrictions on posts as well. Projects submitted must be at least one year old, actively maintained, and have multiple contributors. That would bar solo developers with new projects from looking for help. The mods even say \u201cwe can no longer field requests asking for maintainers or people to contribute.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mods also effectively banned any non-English-speaking members of the community. \u201cIf you don\u2019t speak English, you need to find a different community,\u201d the post reads. \u201cWe cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated. Since you don\u2019t speak English, you can\u2019t even verify yourself if it translated correctly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mods at r\/opensource posted new submission rules that, among other things, banned projects that use AI. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[182,3,250,172,74],"class_list":["post-894362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-news","tag-reddit","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}