Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Hackaday: Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg has formally announced that projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other 'AI' tools will no longer be welcome. This follows on the heels of a similar ban on cryptocurrency-related projects. The community vote was on two issues, the first being the notion that scraping of project code for the use in LLMs should be forbidden, which was a motion that easily passed. The second motion was on disallowing projects whose code was substantially generated by LLMs like Claude, OpenAI Codex, and similar. This motion passed with 358 in favor versus 144 against.

In the earlier linked blog post the reasoning behind especially this second issue is expanded upon, covering not only "license whitewashing," but also the direct and indirect hardware costs, with the expanding 'AI' datacenter hyperscaling having massively increased hardware costs for Codeberg over the past years, as the costs have been largely externalized. Also covered is the aspect of these LLM-based tools destroying the OSS community, which is something that is backed up by recent studies.

Excellent

[gweihir]

Always good to see that there are still people with intact wits in this whole sea of crazy we have today.

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[Arrogant-Bastard]

Agreed. I've been waffling on migrating from Github -- inertia, you know -- despite its increasing enshittification. This gives me at least some reassurance that Codeberg has its head screwed up straight, so I think I'm going to start moving projects over there. It probably won't be perfect (what is?) but at least I won't have to wake up every day and wonder what absolutely batshit crazy nonsense is going to inflicted on the site and thus my projects.