COSMIC bans AI code as GNOME debates accepting AI bug reports

System76 has banned AI-generated content from contributions to the COSMIC desktop, requiring contributors to declare they used no LLM for code, comments or descriptions. GNOME developer Michael Catanzaro argues the project should accept AI-generated bug reports, since C and C++ lack memory-safety guarantees.

• COSMIC requires contributors to declare no LLM-generated code, comments or descriptions in PRs
• GNOME Calendar and GNOME Extensions also ban AI content but allow AI learning aids
• Catanzaro cut GNOME Security disclosure deadline from 90 to 30 days from August 1
• GNOME is largely written in memory-unsafe C