Post #4009248

2026-07-22 10:01 UTC

Codeberg community voted to ban AI-generated code in repositories: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434 I am a regular Codeberg user, left GitHub in 2019, and co-maintain Libre projects that saw very little if none at all AI in development. And still I think this decision will backfire badly. I, like most of Codeberg users, was not even aware that this discussion was in place, did not vote. This only passed because of the anti-AI Luddite crowd. Which, mind you, has a point, I have very conflicting feelings about AI myself, and I think that the current trajectory is quite worrying. But this is just a knee-jerk reaction that has clearly not been thought of well enough. I applaude the philosophy, or the intent if you want, of not having Codeberg turn into another SlopHub. But this is fairy-tale wishful thinking. There is no way to reliably detect AI-generated code at scale in 2026. I can already smell the mutual witch hunts across projects and "camps". Anyway, I hope I'm wrong. #codeberg #ai #llm #drama #opensource #ludd #luddism #antiai #libre #foss #floss #slop #github

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@tomgag@infosec.exchange 2026-07-22 12:45

And, just to be clear, since what I wrote seems prone to misinterpretation: If there were a magic spell able to flag with confidence code generated with AI by more than X% amount, whatever X or surrounding policy is, then it would all make sense. But I don't believe in magic, and you shouldn't either. Here are a few examples of what I'm afraid it's going to happen: FLOSS project "OpenHemorrhoid" splits over an intestine dev dispute on tabs-VS-spaces. Now we have "OpenHemorrhoid" and "LibreHemorrhoid" accusing each other of AI-generated code at every PR. Indie dating sim game "Kawaii Shinobi Kanojo" is targeted and harassed with unproven AI-gen reporting because the lack of nonbinary characters is interpreted as a queer-phobic political stance of the dev. Libre "ICE tracker and reporting" app is taken down not by US authority overreach, but by mass allegations of AI-generated code. Well, I hope I'm wrong, the community is very mature after all, I'm sure none of this will happen. #sarcasm

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@emilyskidsister@hachyderm.io 2026-07-22 10:57

@tomgag@infosec.exchange I'm going to move off of #codeberg since it's not helpful to argue over what "mostly" and "written" means, but I'm glad there is a place for this kind of thing. I'm still glad I donated, and will continue. They've help ensure there are options that aren't large US companies. It took a coffee break with glm to deploy Forgejo. I'm hoping there will be a good way to accept drive-by PRs for my small projects. imo, it's okay that it isn't Codeberg.

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