A few days after Linux kernel maintainers dropped the requirement to disclose AI use in kernel work, the moderators of Reddit’s r/opensource went the other way. Any project that “uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI” is no longer welcome in the forum, which lists close to 392,000 members.

Moderator Wolvereness laid out the policy in a post Saturday evening titled “Your tokens aren’t valuable: No more AI.” The post calls AI, “as it exists today,” incongruent with the community. By Sunday morning it had drawn roughly 1,180 comments, and much of the thread was critical.

The AI ban is only part of it

Most of the attention has gone to the AI clause, but the new submission criteria reach well past it. A project shared on the subreddit now has to be at least a year old and actively maintained, with multiple contributors (the post says “subjectively 3+”) and an existing community.…