KDE developer Nate Graham published a firsthand account of how the project’s attempt to write stricter LLM contribution guidelines collapsed after outside pressure. He traces the effort from a mailing-list thread about a flood of AI slop merge requests and a draft letting maintainers close low-effort AI submissions, to an Akademy talk on an AI-native KDE that drew a chilly reception, the reopening of the draft on invent.kde.org, and two outsiders who turned the thread into a fight about AI’s morality and were banned after one exposed the other’s social-media history. He also describes comments being locked to KDE developers, the kdeforpeople.com campaign that gathered mostly non-contributor signatures for an outright AI ban, and the removal of the draft and hiding of the topic, leaving KDE without the restrictions he sought.
Nate Graham recounts how outsiders derailed KDE's bid to restrict LLM contributions
KDE developer Nate Graham published a firsthand account of how the project's attempt to write stricter LLM contribution guidelines collapsed after outside pressure. He traces the effort from a mailing-list thread about a flood of AI slop merge requests and a draft letting maintainers close low-effort AI submissions, to an Akademy talk on an AI-native KDE that drew a chilly reception, the reopening of the draft on invent.kde.org, and two outsiders who turned the thread into a fight about AI's morality and were banned after one exposed the other's social-media history. He also describes comments being locked to KDE developers, the kdeforpeople.com campaign that gathered mostly non-contributor signatures for an outright AI ban, and the removal of the draft and hiding of the topic, leaving KDE without the restrictions he sought.
Source: Pointieststick