The r/opensource mods posted new submission rules Saturday evening. Projects that use AI, are made by AI, or are built for AI are out. Submissions also have to be at least a year old, actively maintained, and have multiple contributors, and the mods say they will no longer take requests for maintainers or contributors. Non-English speakers are told to find another community, since the mods can't tell AI-written from AI-translated.

One mod says there's room for nuance (accessibility features like auto captions), but the thread is in open revolt and a rival r/trueopensource already exists. Several people point out that the Linux kernel now contains some AI-generated code.

It's easy to see why mods buried in low-effort AI spam would reach for a blunt rule. But the year-old, multi-contributor and English-only parts seem to shut out the very people a community like that used to help: new maintainers, solo builders, and folks working in a second language.

Where would you draw the line? Does it matter what tools wrote the code, or whether a real person stands behind the project and answers for it?