Since a lot of people here factor that in with their decisions... I think it makes it easier if we add more transparency. Saves time looking that up myself. And if there's a prominent tag, here's also less need to downvote something.

Users should be informed in one way or another if a prospective Lemmy app was developed with the assistance of AI; noting that fact in the post title or body is more straightforward than expecting users to scan a repository for indicators of such use.

Everything made with AI should be labeled as such. This is how it should have been from the beginning.

I'd personally strongly advocate for outright not allowing AI made apps to be posted, for these reasons:

1. Simply using an AI that's run on a corporate data centers encourages the construction of yet more data centers, with all of the environmental/climate negatives they bring, as well as local harms they induce on the people living near them, such as increased electricity rates.

2. Using corporate AI directly helps the financial situations of those giant corporations (by boosting usage/user numbers, they are able to attract more investment capital), most of which are ran by right-wing CEOs who are more than willing to collaborate with and fund fascist governments to ensure that they are not regulated in search of both maximum profits. Some of these companies, such as Nvidia, Palantir and Oracle, genuinely appear to be seeking to use these tools for what would previously be considered crackpot conspiracy theory levels of public control and surveillance.

3. I'm wary of the potential effects of AI usage resulting in declining or stagnating critical thinking based on some preliminary studies (example 1, example 2).

4. I do not think LLMs can be "just a tool" as many claim.

5. 99% of LLMs (the ones virtually everyone use) are trained on copyrighted code that is incompatible with GPL licensed projects. LLMs have a 3 to 10% chance to unknowingly reproduce the copyrighted code perfectly, introducing legal plagiarism into an open-source project, which could easily open up the developers to being sued in the future if companies scanned open source repos for copyright violations.

6. Many courts are ruling that LLM generated code cannot be copyrighted at all, meaning that it also cannot be legally made GPL, losing the protections from corporate exploration the GPL normally grants. https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.html

I like the selfhosted categorical tagging. For those who AI use is not a black and white issue it gives clarity to the extent. A fully vibe coded app is different from something that uses it to generate a common component and both are different from one that uses it only for documentation.

I also wouldn't be against banning it altogether for ethical reasons related to violating open source licenses, but tags let everyone make their own ethical decisions.

Whole heartedly agree. We've had one user recently go transparent with their app and it went over quite well. I think those who use AI tools will find more respect in a simple "made with the assistance of AI" in their post, or a simple "AI" tag catch all.

Ai, in our Lemmy?! Uhh no thanks