AI-generated contributions are not accepted.

Pull requests, patches, documentation, translations, issues, or other contributions that are substantially generated by generative AI or large language models will not be accepted.

Contributors are expected to understand, author, and take responsibility for the work they submit. Tools such as linters, formatters, autocomplete, spellcheckers, and other non-generative development tools are unaffected by this policy.

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed#ai-generated-contributions

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server#ai-generated-contributions

We heard you! We are not accepting any AI or agentic code contributions, and will keep building Pixelfed by hand.

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[+] bretton.dev@coves.social -13 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

I still think it's odd to ban AI outright, it's incredibly democratizing for smaller platforms and enables them to keep up with without getting bogged down in the drudgery of bug fixes / testing.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 3 points 59 minutes ago

Keep up with who? Developing good software is not a race, unless you're a corporation.

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Allowing the use of something that is ruining the internet, mental health, the environment, art, politics etc. may demoralize some developers and get a lot of people to dislike and not use your project, something that is way more important for a social media than the speed LLMs allegedly provide

[–] joe@lemmy.world -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

something that is ruining the internet, mental health, the environment, art, politics etc.

Humans?

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 17 minutes ago)

Open source projects that allow those humans to contribute can also demoralize some developers and get a lot of people to dislike and not use the project

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago

If you can tell it is AI generated, then it's going to be more trouble than it is worth.

Note "substantially" AI generated. If you've been paying attention to popular open source projects you've seen the sort of "contributions" and of course they should be dismissed.

If you have had generally good experience with GenAI, think not of your direct experience, but rather your experience with how others have used it, and that's more representative of the issues.