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Flathub moves to ban nearly all apps and submissions made with generative AI

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨GamingBot@lemmy.zip [bot]⁩ to ⁨gaming@lemmy.zip⁩

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/flathub-moves-to-ban-nearly-all-apps-and-submissions-made-with-generative-ai/

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hallelujah

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  • disorderly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly not an insane stance for an app repository. LLMs puke out what they ate, and there’s a perfectly reasonable concern that they might not have legal authorization to everything they trained on. I definitely wouldn’t want to get sued for hosting an app that is found to be in violation of a license agreement.

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  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fair. Maybe a separate repo makes sense for the wild West of vibe apps, but flathub is really more focused on end users whom will absolutely commit a murder if they find out the documentation they have been using and failing to do what they want was just gas lighting them.

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    • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe a separate repo makes sense for the wild West of vibe apps

      AIUR: For those who want to play Lemmings with a penguin reskin

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  • favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not gonna be a long term solution. AI generated code is here to stay.

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  • petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why do they accept proprietary apps and no ai assisted ones… I don’t get it…

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    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I guess it goes along with

      there is an exception noted for “mature, well-maintained projects” but it’s not a guarantee.

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      • petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        However, this could also be left up to the user by labeling the applications accordingly, as is the case with proprietary applications. When it comes to quality, I’d say: you can produce poor-quality code even without AI, but it’s a lot more work 😀️

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