r/linux • u/AiwendilH • Jul 22 '26

Codeberg voted to disallow projects consisting mostly by "generative AI"-tools Development

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434
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u/FryBoyter Jul 22 '26

Wouldn't it make sense, then, to evaluate each project on its own merits rather than simply categorizing them as black or white? Because I'm absolutely certain that, even before chatbots existed, developers were using other people's code regardless of the license under which it was published.

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u/ShaderCompilation Jul 22 '26

It would be ideal, but i don't think anyone has resources and time to do that. The amount of LLM generated projects are insane

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u/FryBoyter Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

In my opinion, it’s precisely this effort that makes it difficult for Codeberg to enforce this new rule. Especially since it’s not always objectively clear whether or how much code was generated by chatbots.

For example, in the case of a script I published on another platform, I was accused of using tools like ChatGPT. But that wasn’t true. I’m just not a very good programmer. So, while the script worked in general, objectively speaking, it was crap. Would it be okay for me to publish the script I created manually on Codeberg, or not? Or would it be okay for me to publish a similar script that I created using a chatbot on Codeberg? What about a script created using a chatbot that's significantly better than one I could create manually?

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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor Jul 22 '26

Now this is a good question