{"slug": "show-hn-ai-use-disclaimer", "title": "Show HN: AI Use Disclaimer", "summary": "A developer published an AI use disclaimer for their software project, detailing that AI tools are limited to productivity functions and never generate original content, with all intellectual property belonging to human authors. The page is CC0 licensed for others to reuse.", "body_md": "This page details to which extent (if at all) AI is being used in the creation and maintenance of the software. It applies to all files and content in this project’s Git repositories, all releases on GitHub and elsewhere, all content on this website, all public-facing communication, and all notes and documentation, past and present.\n\nThis page is updated whenever this changes. The last updated date can be found at the bottom of the page.\n\nIn short:\n\nAny AI/LLM tools used in the project were limited to standard productivity and engineering functions (e.g., formatting, testing, applying repetetive code changes) and did not generate original content. All intellectual property belongs to the authors listed in the LICENSE and/or authors whose names are present in Git commits.\n\nAI is *NEVER* used to:\n\n`git`\n\ntags or decide when to create themvibe coding)\n\nAI is *SOMETIMES* (but *not often*) used to:\n\nrubber duckyfor debugging and designing\n\nAI is *OFTEN* used to:\n\nIf you wish to use this AI use\n\ndocument format on your\nwebsite, please feel free to do so. You can credit by linking back to\nthis page but you don’t have to. You may consider this AI use\n\npage as `CC0`\n\nlicensed.\n\nAIs/LLMs used are:\n\nAI training is turned off where possible.\n\nWe try to mark fully/mostly AI generated files, such as scripts, explicitly. We don’t always remember to do this, and we do not require it of ourselves. We also keep no list of AI generated files or similar. If you want to be perfectly sure that you use/run no AI generated code, use only the libraries themselves and none of the auxiliary scripts and other files.\n\nIf we missed something, please [contact\nus](./contact.html).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-use-disclaimer", "canonical_source": "https://libls.org/ai-use", "published_at": "2026-06-24 08:54:43+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-24 09:14:18.372071+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-ethics", "ai-policy", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["GitHub", "CC0"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-use-disclaimer", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-use-disclaimer.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-use-disclaimer.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-use-disclaimer.jsonld"}}