Codeberg Proposes Banning LLM-Generated Code in New Terms of Use
Codeberg: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions
Codeberg is moving to update its Terms of Use to prohibit projects that mostly consist of LLM-generated code. This proposal aims to address unclear copyright statuses and ethical concerns regarding outsourcing human thinking to AI. While the community debates the strictness of the definition, the core intent is to maintain Codeberg as an ethical alternative where contributors thoroughly understand and review their work.
Slapping the label educational purposes is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. It doesn't magically make the copyright issues go away.
- CodesInChaos
I'd avoid using overly opinionated code hosters that capriciously change their ToS to ban content that was allowed before without a very good reason. I'd like my code to survive long after I stop maintaining it, and such changes reduce my trust that a hoster will achieve that.
(This specific change wouldn't affect me, since all the code I published was written without AI)
- oeitho
Great decision from Codeberg. I’m only becoming more and more happy with my decision to transition away from GitHub.
- mortarion
Well, guess I will take my repositories elsewhere.
- f311a
I think at this point any attempt to prevent it will fail.
AI code is almost everywhere, even in projects that were against it 6 months ago.
- joshka