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Jordan Petridis@jpetridis@blogs.gnome.org (2026-09-23 15:02:20)
The GNOME LLM Policy That I Want


KDE is on the news because of a controversial proposal to define an official “AI” (LLM) policy (archived link). Other projects have tried their hand at similar policies and stances but, in my opinion, they miss the mark about the goal of such initiatives. I think that the point of these statements is shaping social norms and not micro-managing developer workflows. They should be about signalling what kind of behavior we want, and what kind we reject.

This proposal does not go into detail about the many problems that LLM have caused to society, workers, the environment. It goes without saying that all these ills are fundamentally opposed to the humanist spirit of GNOME.

With all that in mind, here is what I personally think a GNOME LLM policy could be:

A GNOME Project LLM Policy
The GNOME Project prioritizes the social and human aspects of
collective software creation. Therefore:

1. LLMs ("AI") can not be used to create or modify
anything submitted to GNOME, or hosted on GNOME infrastructure.

You might be asked to prove your code meets this requirement.
You might be banned for trying to circumvent this policy.
Example Guidelines for ContributorsThese are just a draft of the kind of criteria one could use to evaluate if a submission fits the policy.

You must be able to personally reason and explain your changes
You must be able to demonstrate knowledge of the problem space you are working on
You must solve the underlying issue, not just its symptoms
You must respect the time of fellow contributors
You must not impersonate yourself through chatbots, agents, or other automated systems
This Is About The Future Of GNOME
GNOME is not just software that happens to ship every six months. That is just a delusion we have been holding up for the last 30 years to keep our loose group of colleagues, friends, and acquaintances, together.

GNOME exists as a collective that find joy in reaching beyond our individual limitations to achi
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