GNOME bans AI-generated extensions

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Author: Stevie Bonifield

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Earlier this month, the GNOME Shell Extensions store updated its review guidelines to include a new section specifically stating that "extensions must not be AI-generated," as reported by It's FOSS and Phoronix. Developers producing add-ons for the Linux desktop environment can still use AI as a tool, but if their extension's code contains signs of being mostly written by AI, the updated guidelines say it will be rejected:

Submissions with large amounts of unnecessary code, inconsistent code style, imaginary API usage, comments serving as LLM prompts, or other indications of AI-generated output will be rejected.

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