Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects 14
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.
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 (Score:4, Insightful)
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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That's why I am careful with such projects (Score:1)
GitHub is evil? Maybe a bit. Use codeberg! Codewho?
The problem is not that the project was not sympathetic, but that it has a small and opinionated governing. GitHub will somehow need to appease the general consensus or get a huge shitstorm. That makes your project relatively save, because they cannot be that arbitrary in their decisions. Codeberg, on the other hand, can decide within a few days to ban LLM-Code.
If you migrated your project there because GitHub is evil and used LLM since some time, you would
Re: That's why I am careful with such projects (Score:2)
I'm thinking of moving off Github and maintaining a legacy account for verification purposes. I quit LinkedIn when MSFT bought it and debated about Github when it was bought Thinking about new Buzz platform from Dorsey. I think banning LLM code is suicide but it's not my problem.
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GitHub has deleted projects because it didn't like them too or considered them too much of a hot potato. Try safely hosting an emulator on there for an older games console or something similar. The only difference is corpo-bias in things to remove vs moral bias.
You can self host if you have real concerns - most people have at least some idea of whether their project is controversial or not. Anyone using LLMs to code right now knows full well that 90% of actual people in computing, as opposed to corporation
Crypto maybe, LLM-Generated Code Good Luck! (Score:3)
No use trying to add guardrails now! Mountains of slop are upon us!
The End of the Age of Masonry (Score:2)
A history lesson: "the "age of masonry" ended around 1870 to 1890. This period marked the shift from heavy, load-bearing stone and brick walls to the mass-production of rolled steel I-beams and skeleton frame construction. Steel frames took the structural weight off walls, transforming masonry into a mere exterior veneer."
I've been expecting this period for 15 years.
Most code egotists won't last long.
https://www.scry.llc/2014/05/1... [scry.llc]
"a classic example is the American car industry, which went from 1500 compa
link resource allocation to community size (Score:2)
from the article:
"It seems like many ‘vibe coders’ don't realize that they don't actually have a community around them. They build projects as if they had, and spend resources accordingly. We see projects having a lot of code activity, heavy CI/CD testing, frequent and large release binaries. Sometimes, it feels like the amount of supported platforms exceeds the amount of actual users.
To us, it seems ridiculous to see projects with a single developer and virtually no users consuming as much or e
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It's almost like you have to do resource management if you don't want randoms to cost you shitloads of money on a cloud-based platform.
Who knew?
I was resently searching for hosting (Score:2)
In the last year I deleted all of my old open source projects. I'm doing some closed source work now on an app that isn't releases... and everything is yelling AI at you from GitHub to Gitlab. I may open source parts of this library at some point if they mature.
I'm begrudgingly on Bitbucket, but mentally ready to move if I find something new. Maybe I should take a look at codeberg again if I am ready to post a mix of open source and closed source. For those who don't know, Godeberg is a fork of Gitea af
Re: I was resently searching for hosting (Score:2)
Who? (Score:2)
Guess everyone needs a place.
I'm surprised they survived (Score:1)