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Show HN: AI Use Disclaimer

A hobby project website offers a per-project AI use disclaimer template under CC0 license. The creator argues that open source maintainers have a duty to disclose their extent of AI use, aiming to replace vague "vibe coded" accusations with transparent, responsible tool use disclosures.

Background

- "Vibe coding" is a dismissive term in tech circles for letting an AI (like ChatGPT or Copilot) write most or all of a codebase, often with the human barely understanding the output. Many developers see it as sloppy or harmful to open-source quality. - Hacker News (HN) is a major tech community where readers often try to guess whether a project was AI-generated. The poster is proposing a voluntary disclosure standard so maintainers state upfront how much AI assistance they used — ending the speculation. - CC0 is a "no rights reserved" public-domain license; the author is giving away the disclaimer text so anyone can reuse it freely. - This matters because open-source trust depends on knowing who or what wrote the code. A standard disclaimer could become a norm, similar to how projects already declare their license or dependencies.

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