Open-Slopware: A List of FOSS Projects Tainted by AI, With Alternatives
open-slopware – Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use LLMs/AI
Open-Slopware tracks free and open source projects that have adopted LLMs or AI, tagging them with labels like Vibecoded, Permissive AI Policy, or AI Functionality. For each tainted project, the repository lists AI-free alternatives and the last untainted commit, so users can fork if their ethical boundaries are crossed. It also offers guides for requesting a No AI policy or creating a slop-free fork.
This list is not a resource to be used for the harassment of other open-source developers.
- Tiberium
Some of these are, in my opinion, extreme. From their README:
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Condones the use of AI/LLMs to ingest the project's contents. This can be for "understanding the code better", "finding bugs/security issues/optimizations". This tag is to be used independently for projects that generally reject the use of AI in their code repositories, issue trackers, and sponsorships, but still encourage or permit users to use LLMs to ingest their code base. This is independent of a project's licensing. This tag is to be used for the maintainers' statements about, or reactions to, the usage of LLMs/AIs to ingest the repo.
The reason we still find this worthy of a tag is because it:
- means that the LLM, often provided by a company with very little respect for copyright, will then save a copy of that open source repo for use in it's future outputs.
- still encourages people to use LLMs and carves out a special situation in which they're still OK, but as this repo is against AI/LLMs for more than just "poor code quality" reasons, we still believe this is not a good course of action as it still promotes the use of inherently unethical tooling.
Evidence may be, but is not limited to:
- An AI or Contribution policy that carves out a space for "using LLMs to understand the code" or "finding bugs"
- Core maintainer using or accepting the use of AI for finding bugs or security issues
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If I understand it correctly, if someone merely opens an issue in an open-source project and says something like " […]
- VariousPrograms
This feels like a hobby or special interest rather than a list of genuine software recommendations, unless you're running CoffeeBSD and browsing the web with Netsurf.
- collinfunk
Ironically, the maintainers of this repository are equally talented as vibe coders, since they simply maintain a markdown file and nothing else.