Many open source projects are suffering from an influx of AI generated content that is creating an undue burden on project maintainers. This comes in many forms, but one of them is pull requests that do not follow existing standards, patterns, and are often incomplete, broken, buggy, or don't address the underlying bug/feature request. As a result, many open source projects are adopting AI Policies - be it in their contributing guidelines or elsewhere.
An emerging pattern is using a PR Template to ask authors to disclose their AI usage, including the tools, providers,