37 of 120 Surveyed Open Source Projects Have Adopted Total AI Contribution Bans
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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.