Reddit’s r/opensource bars AI-related projects

Reddit’s r/opensource community has adopted rules barring projects that use AI, are made by AI or are intended for AI, while also setting new age, maintenance and contributor requirements for submissions. Moderator Wolvereness announced the changes on October 24, describing AI as incompatible with the community. Under the rules, projects must be at least a year old, actively maintained and have multiple contributors. Posts also face requirements tied to the poster’s Reddit account, including an account age of at least a year and a history of significant contributions. The rules additionally restrict non-English posts and exclude requests seeking maintainers or additional contributors, according to reports of the announcement. Wolvereness said the AI restriction is not objectively enforceable, leaving moderators to decide whether a project appears to use AI. That discretion has raised questions about how the policy could apply to software with limited or incidental AI use. One account of the rules said AI-powered accessibility features, such as automatic captioning, could be treated selectively rather than automatically prohibited. The Linux kernel became a point of debate...