Open-source forum on Reddit bans AI projects and shuts out non-English speakers
The moderators of r/opensource, a Reddit community about open-source software with about 98,000 weekly visitors, banned projects built with artificial intelligence and, in practice, contributions from people who do not speak English. The post "Your tokens are worth nothing: no more AI" requires projects to be at least one year old, actively maintained, have three or more contributors and their own community. It drew nearly 1,400 comments in less than a day and led to the creation of an alternative forum, r/TrueOpenSource.
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- r/opensource now requires projects to be at least one year old, actively maintained, with three or more contributors and their own community
- Anyone posting content generated by a language model is permanently banned, with no appeal
- The exclusion of non-English speakers was the most criticized point; moderators say they cannot tell AI-written text from AI-translated text
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