KDE and AI, and You, and Me
KDE and AI, and you, and me Nate FOSS culture, Inside KDE September 23, 2026September 23, 2026 6 Minutes So I accidentally triggered an online shitstorm in the process of trying to craft a set of more restrictive LLM usage guidelines for KDE. I’m going to leave the comments on this post open, but I will request that everyone who wants to comment read and understand the entire post first. Here’s a verifiable timeline of events: Several weeks ago, a KDE developer started a mailing list thread asking about how we should handle the flood of AI slop merge requests.
- ▪KDE and AI, and you, and me Nate FOSS culture, Inside KDE September 23, 2026September 23, 2026 6 Minutes So I accidentally triggered an online shitstorm in the process of trying to craft a set of more restrictive LLM usage guidelines for KD
- ▪I’m going to leave the comments on this post open, but I will request that everyone who wants to comment read and understand the entire post first.
- ▪Here’s a verifiable timeline of events: Several weeks ago, a KDE developer started a mailing list thread asking about how we should handle the flood of AI slop merge requests.
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| Original publisher | Adventures in Linux and KDE |
| Canonical URL | https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/23/kde-and-ai-and-you-and-me/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:07:38 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-23T20:09:30.787Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-23T20:09:30.787Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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KDE and AI, and you, and me Nate FOSS culture, Inside KDE September 23, 2026September 23, 2026 6 Minutes So I accidentally triggered an online shitstorm in the process of trying to craft a set of more restrictive LLM usage guidelines for KDE. Sorry about that. I’m going to leave the comments on this post open, but I will request that everyone who wants to comment read and understand the entire post first. So anyway… What happened? Here’s a verifiable timeline of events: Several weeks ago, a KDE developer started a mailing list thread asking about how we should handle the flood of AI slop merge requests. Everyone agreed it was a problem, and that we don’t want that crap. There was less certainty about the best way to handle it socially.
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