Made by Human, Not by Gen-AI
The repository provides badges to signal that a project’s code was written without generative AI assistance. It defines limited acceptable AI uses, such as searching or debugging help, while requiring human review of any AI-generated content. The article also highlights concerns about copyright violations, license‑washing, and plagiarism associated with AI‑generated code.
- ▪The badge may be used if AI‑generated code comprises less than 1% of the total lines in a project.
- ▪Acceptable AI assistance includes smart searching, bug‑help, and learning the codebase, but not writing final implementations.
- ▪All AI‑generated output must be reviewed by a human and the user remains responsible for it.
- ▪Research cited indicates large language models can unintentionally copy copyleft‑licensed code, leading to potential license violations.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 2,966 of its stories.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Hacker News (AI / LLM) |
| Canonical URL | https://www.by-human.net/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:58:56 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-30T20:07:29.710Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-30T20:07:29.710Z |
| 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 |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| 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 |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Made by Human, not by Gen-AI Website | Github | CC0 Licensed This is a repository that aims to provide a collection of badges to symbolize that you didn’t use generative AI (notably LLMs) for the creation of your project. By using this, you are expected to ensure that AI-generated code makes up less than 1% of the total written lines of code in your project. You can use the badge only if you ask for assistance like a smart grepper. Note that nobody will check your code, and if you are against AI use in your codebase but are unsure about the number of lines of code written by AI, you can still use the badge. The goal is to be transparent and to try to reduce the abusive use of AI in codebases.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Hacker News (AI / LLM).
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