Hi folks, I'm trying to put together a list of AI-generated-contribution policies for different open source projects.

[melissawm@pynews.com.br]

@nils_ballmann

[melissawm@pynews.com.br]

@dalias thank you!

[cthoyt@scholar.social]

@melissawm thanks for putting this together!

[melissawm@pynews.com.br]

@cthoyt I figure this must be useful for folks brainstorming, to see what others are doing and maybe even borrow policies if they agree instead of writing it all from scratch every time...

But I can also see this as a starting point for agents to index policies and hopefully avoid projects that are not accepting of their contributions

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@melissawm
Gentoo Policy: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy
Linux man-pages policy derived from it: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai
NetBSD Policy: https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

[melissawm@pynews.com.br]

@lanodan amazing, thanks!

[shafik@hachyderm.io]

@melissawm

I have been keeping my own list but locally not in github, I think you are missing:

Apache DataFusion policy
https://datafusion.apache.org/contributor-guide/index.html#ai-assisted-contributions

Apache Kvrocks
https://kvrocks.apache.org/community/contributing/#guidelines-for-ai-assisted-contributions

ASF policy
https://www.apache.org/legal/generative-tooling.html

Cpython
https://devguide.python.org/getting-started/generative-ai/

Fedora community proposal on AI policy
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/council-policy-proposal-policy-on-ai-assisted-contributions/

IREE
https://iree.dev/developers/general/contributing/#obtaining-commit-access

[melissawm@pynews.com.br]

@shafik wow thanks! I'll add those too 🥰

[shafik@hachyderm.io]

@melissawm

Here are posts on projects struggling w/ LLM slop

Blender struggling under LLM slop
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/ai-contributions-policy/44202

Godot struggling under LLM slop
https://bsky.app/profile/akien.bsky.social/post/3meyerixvhs2p

Mesa project tightening restrictions after bad PR incident
https://social.treehouse.systems/@gfxstrand/115220843956925235

Curl will be shutting down their bug bounty program due to how bad AI slop is
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/overrun-with-ai-slop-curl-scraps-bug-bounties-to-ensure-intact-mental-health/
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20312

FreeBSD considering it
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50650

[ska@social.treehouse.systems]

@melissawm I feel like we're missing a GFY policy, like the Gentoo or linux-man-pages one but much more outwardly hostile. Because these all feel like accepting the framework that LLM-assisted contributions are part of the things that can be reasonably debated, that are in the window of acceptable discourse; but instead of that I want to laugh (or insult, if necessary) the idea out of the room.