{"slug": "sdl-project-bans-ai", "title": "SDL Project bans AI", "summary": "The SDL project, a widely used cross-platform development library, has updated its contribution policy to ban the use of generative AI, including large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Grok, in any form when contributing code or comments. The maintainers cited concerns that AI-generated code may originate from unknown sources and could introduce license conflicts with the project's Zlib license, and they noted that AI frequently hallucinates issues, leading to incorrect bug reports. The policy allows AI to identify potential issues but requires that solutions be authored by humans, and it emphasizes a desire to interact with real humans rather than AI-generated content.", "body_md": "|\n`1` |\n| `-` AI must not be used to generate code for contributions to this project. |\n| `1` | `+` Generative AI, including large language models (LLMs), should not be used in |\n| `2` | `+` any way when contributing to SDL. |\n`2` | `3` |\n|\n`3` |\n| `-`\"AI\" in this case means a Large Language Model (\"LLM\"), such as ChatGPT, |\n`4` |\n| `-` Claude, Copilot, Grok, etc. |\n`5` |\n| `-` |\n`6` |\n| `-` AI-generated code is based upon sources of unknown origins and may not be |\n`7` |\n| `-` compatible with the Zlib license, or may introduce conflicting license terms |\n`8` |\n| `-` if they include code from other projects. |\n`9` |\n| `-` |\n`10` |\n| `-` AI can be used to identify issues with contributions to this project, but the |\n`11` |\n| `-` solutions to those issues should be authored by humans. |\n`12` |\n| `-` |\n`13` |\n| `-` We have found that AI will frequently hallucinate issues that are not actually |\n`14` |\n| `-` problems in practice, report incorrect information, and describe problems that |\n`15` |\n| `-` are actually not issues at all. If AI identifies a problem with this codebase, |\n`16` |\n| `-` please make sure you understand what it is saying and have independently |\n`17` |\n| `-` confirmed that the issue exists before submitting a bug report or pull request. |\n| `4` | `+` We want our code to be art. We want to interact with real humans. Please don't |\n| `5` | `+` submit AI-generated comments or code in bug reports or pull requests. We |\n| `6` | `+` understand some people consider AI to be a useful tool, but we want to connect |\n| `7` | `+` with you, not your computer. |\n`18` | `8` |\n|\n`19` | `9` | Any pull request to this project will ask you to confirm that you are the\n|\n`20` |\n| `-` author and that you are contributing your changes under the Zlib license. |\n| `10` | `+` author and that you are contributing your changes under the zlib license. |\n| `11` | `+` |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sdl-project-bans-ai", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/83ab835bfd48b9fea3fefbf84f65ae898fedaffb", "published_at": "2026-08-31 17:39:56+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-31 17:52:25.604886+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["SDL", "ChatGPT", "Claude", "Copilot", "Grok"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sdl-project-bans-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sdl-project-bans-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sdl-project-bans-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sdl-project-bans-ai.jsonld"}}