
r/opensource bars AI projects and tightens posting rules
Projects must be a year old, OSI-licensed, and have an existing community plus subjectively three or more contributors.
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Projects must be a year old, OSI-licensed, and have an existing community plus subjectively three or more contributors.

Mods say they cannot tell AI writing from AI translation, and a rival subreddit, r/trueopensource, has already appeared.
Solar Designer says oss-security volume and subscriber churn remain elevated amid AI vulnerability-report floods.

arXiv now limits authors to two monthly submissions after AI-written papers overwhelmed moderators.
Open typed decision models mostly follow option labels, not definitions, because of prompt rendering.
oss-security moderator Solar Designer says he may reject repetitive AI-generated postings after debate over AI slop submissions.
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