My AI Policy
Published at 2026-07-10 16:01:09 -0700
tl;dr: no
My Personal & Professional AI Policy
I will not use generative AI (ie, LLMs or any other similarly related technology, hereby simply referred to as “AI”) to produce any output including code, design, and correspondence. Period.
Due to copyright and licensing infringement, and the non-copyrightable status of AI generated content, I will not accept AI generated content in any of my projects, whether it is a pull request, issue, email, or any other form of interaction.
Should something slip through the cracks and make it into one of my projects, it will be deleted as soon as possible.
If you feel the need/desire to argue with me about this, don’t waste your time. I will not argue with you about it. I’m not open to it. IDGAF about your opinion of AI.
Also good reads:
- https://dbushell.com/ai/ (a source of inspiration for this post)
- https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct/#strict-no-llm-no-ai-policy (also)
- https://kristoff.it/blog/contributor-poker-and-ai/
- https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/5fc7775459/CONTRIBUTING.md#artificial-intelligence-and-large-language-models-contributions-policy
- https://github.com/melissawm/open-source-ai-contribution-policies
- https://github.com/moongardenmods/allium/blob/a7b9df9b/CONTRIBUTING.md#ai-contributions
- https://datafusion.apache.org/contributor-guide/index.html#better-ways-to-contribute-than-an-ai-dump
Legal References:
- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rejects-copyrights-ai-generated-art-lacking-human-creator-2025-03-18/
- https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-449.html
- https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2026/03/us-supreme-court-declines-to-consider-whether-ai-alone-can-create-copyrighted-works