After publishing AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers I wanted to move beyond anecdotes and get a clearer picture of how the open source community is actually responding to AI-generated contributions. The stories of maintainer burnout and “AI slop” flooding pull requests were compelling, but I still had lots of questions. How many projects have

I compiled and analyzed the generative AI policies of 32 open source organizations, including foundations like the Linux Foundation, Apache, and Eclipse, as well as individual projects like the Linux Kernel, Gentoo, curl, and Matplotlib.