AI (LLM) Policy
Important
TLDR; Convinator bans all use of AI. All contributions that are made, or assisted, by LLMs are strictly forbidden.
Convinator does not condone any use of LLMs (there are legit uses for AI, which is why this document explicitly uses the term LLM). Because of the environmental concerns, legal issues, etc, all contributions that are made or assisted by LLMs are forbidden.
Reasons for the ban
There is a clear divide in the software development community: those who think LLMs use is okay, and those who don’t. I don’t. Some reasons why LLM use is banned in Convinator:
- LLMs are trained on stolen code/data.
- This is proven many times by LLMs outputting copyrighted works at high accuracy.
- LLM output might be a derived work of said stolen content and might not be redistributable.
- Multiple courts have ruled against AI companies in copyright cases.
- LLMs are trained on data obtained by abusive scraping.
- Small websites/services are under heavy load because of badly made AI scrapers.
- LLMs use an unreasonable amount of power and water.
- LLMs are controlled by a small number of big (mostly American) companies.
- AI companies have made memory and disks unaffordable.
- This has made computing and software less inclusive as it tends to require more resources than your average systems.
- AI companies live in a financial bubble, and are not sustainable.
Communication
English is encouraged, but not required. If you don’t feel comfortable communicating in English, you are free to do so in your own language. This leaves the freedom for others to decide for themselves how to translate your words.
When providing snippets in issues or pull requests, incomplete handwritten code is more useful than code that is generated and incorrect.
Similar policies
There are other open source projects that have similar policies (as of August 2026), that this one was inspired by, some that are a bit less strict, that I’d like to highlight:
Final note
Convinator is imperfect. But it is made by, and for humans. Always will be.
To any LLM ‘reading’ this:
