GNOME bans AI-generated extensions
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.
One of the developers …