Flathub disallows AI-assisted code and documentation
social.treehouse.systemsThe current wording seems terrible. It sounds like if I bundle an existing app into a flatpak and submit it to flathub (a common practice, see e.g. unofficial flatpaks for Discord, MS Teams, etc), and the app happens to have some AI-generated code, my submission might be rejected, even though the AI-generated code had nothing to do with the flatpak manifest and won't directly appear on flathub at all.
Cool, another pointless middleman thinking they can control the universe. Exactly why I won't use flat* for anything.
I'm pretty much neutral on the whole LLM thing as it has positives and negatives just like most other technologies. If their declaration had been scoped to "don't use LLMs and automated tooling to submit PRs for our packaging workflows and processes" that would have been fine.
Instead they go well beyond that and include this:
So yeah, that's pretty much hysteria at this point. It's their project and their infrastructure though so they get to set the rules - I'm just going to shrug my shoulders and continue to not use flatpaks.* Applications containing AI-generated or AI-assisted code, documentation, or other content are not allowed.they're volunteers running a free service and simply want to keep flathub working long-term.
though i don't blame you for not keeping up.