r/opensource, Reddit’s primary “subreddit for everything open source related,” has banned all AI-assisted and AI-related projects. The users on the subreddit are not taking the ban well. However, not all of the comments appear to be from LLM lovers, as the moderators’ decision to also ban users who “don’t speak English” has upset most of the community that supports the AI-related restrictions.
As reported by The Verge, the subreddit’s October 24 post, titled “Your tokens aren’t valuable: No more AI,” features four new main rules: all projects must now be at least “1 year old,” have “multiple contributors,” be posted by someone who must “speak English,” and cannot be “made by” or “intended for” AI.
There’s a lot to go over here, but the ban on AI is simple; as the subreddit’s moderators explain, “AI, as it exists today, is incongruent to this Open Source community.” Unsurprisingly, this is the part that’s upset the majority of the users in the thread.
“This is orthogonal to open source,” reads the top comment. “It’s OK to not like AI but it doesn’t change whether something is open source or not. I guess Linux is no longer allowed here? Linus uses AI for kernel development now. This is a ridiculous stance.”
However, the moderator who posted the new guidelines stated in a separate comment that the overwhelmingly negative response is due to “some guy on twitter claiming to be alternative news” who posted an “opinionated editorial pointing hundreds of people to the thread.”
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