Starlight Network No-AI List

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A list of projects that pledged not to use AI or are disrupting it.

Raw Markdown

Some projects here will be marked like such: ✱, ✱ or ✱

The red ✱ is for Proprietary Software.
The green ✱ is for software where it's ambiguous whether they're "Anti-AI" or not. I.e NetBSD, which say they don't want AI-code without prior written approval by core..
the blue ✱ is for forks and other downstream software that is "tainted" by upstream using AI.

This doesn't mean the software is "worse", it's just there for transparency's sake.

Web/Internet (tools, browser):

makko
nixie
Publ (evidence)
hit-counter.net (evidence)
Servo (evidence)
Ask-kt (evidence, also personally confirmed via E-Mail)
✱ Konform Browser (evidence)
✱ WaterFox (evidence)
✱ Librewolf (evidence)
✱ ✱ Vivaldi (evidence, among other statements)
Offpunk (evidence, creator reached out via E-Mail)

Web Frameworks & Libraries

Fire (evidence)
Bridgetown (evidence)

Instant Messaging

mynah (evidence)
Fluxcord (evidence (fake claude instructions))
poezio (evidence)
polyproto (evidence, disclosure: I (alexia) am involved in this project)
Halloy (evidence)

Social Media

Wafrn (evidence)
GoToSocial (evidence)
Kittygram (evidence, fake claude instructions)
Snac2 (evidence)
Iceshrimp.NET (evidence, "human contributions only" badge at top of README.md)
Epicyon (evidence)

Libraries

slixmpp (evidence, fake copilot instructions)
xmpp-rs (evidence)
Ruma (evidence)
libepos (evidence)
rsstrogen (evidence, poisoned claude.md)
keyframegen (evidence)
dmpmem/storage (evidence)
zuwu (evidence)
evaltool (evidence)
bibata-cursor-cli (evidence)
LibAdwaita (evidence)
Comrak (evidence)
musl libc (evidence)
Libmanette (evidence)
enumflags2 (evidence, fake agents.md instructions)

Programming Languages and Compilers

Text Editors

✱ Gram (evidence, caveat: fork of Zed, codebase needs AI-generated parts removed over time)
EVi (evidence)
Vim Classic (evidence)

Operating Systems

MirBSD (evidence)
✱ NetBSD (evidence, it's not 100% clear whether they fully reject it, as they leave it open to interpretation.)
RedoxOS (evidence)
Haiku (evidence)

Linux Distributions

elementary OS (evidence)
Gentoo (evidence)
Chimera Linux (evidence under Contributing section)
AerynOS (evidence)
postmarketOS (evidence)
Asahi Linux (evidence)
Libreserver (evidence)

OS Components (Init, Service Management, Daemons, etc)

Commandline Utilities

forgejo-cli (evidence)
Datamatrix (evidence)

Commandline Shells

mksh (evidence)

Desktop Environments & Components

quickshell (evidence)

Services, Daemons, server-software and alike

Copyparty (evidence)
Warmlake (evidence)

Virtualization & Containerization

AI Defense Tools

Creative Tools

Inkscape (evidence, they don't want any generative AI in their recent job offers)
videotool (evidence)
GNU Imp (evidence)
Elastic (evidence)
Decker (evidence)
Ardour (evidence)

Media utilities (image viewers, media players, etc)

GNOME Loupe (evidence)
Libre.fm (evidence, path /ai leads to a page that just says "Nope.")

Games

SuperTuxKart (evidence)
Cataclysm DDA (evidence)
Under Fallen Leaves (evidence: "No AI was used for the creation of this game!", dev personally reached out)
OpenTTD (evidence)
Cubyz (evidence)

Game Engines

LÖVE2D (evidence)
Bevy (evidence)

Modding

Custom Firmware (Consoles and such)

Atmosphere (evidence)

Emulators

Guac (evidence)
Highscore (evidence)
- LibHighscore (evidence)
SnowPME (evidence, also confirmed via Email by project author)

Data manipulation (and such)

calconv (evidence, fake agents.md instructions)
Bobby (evidence)

Backup software

Deja-dup (evidence)

Mobile Applications

Android

Virtual Keyboards

Florisboard (evidence)

Creative tools

pegan (evidence)

iOS

nothing so far :(

Misc

allsorts (evidence)
fahrplan (evidence)
Linux-man-pages project (evidence)
Migraine log (evidence)
clbre and arcalibre (evidence: both are forks from upstream that were created due to inclusion of AI)
hacktivis.me software (evidence)

to be further expanded...