Open‑source Projects Police AI Contributions

Major free‑software communities are formalizing rules that ban or require provenance for code created or modified with large language models. The debates are not just technical — outsider campaigns, social media, and press coverage are already shaping internal governance and derailing consensus processes. — Project‑level policies will shape software provenance norms, supply‑chain security, contributor verification, and whether open source becomes a refuge from or vector for AI‑produced code.