Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions

The open-source game engine Godot has officially had enough of what its team calls AI “slop,” and the reaction online is exactly the kind of messy, spicy internet theater you’d expect. After months of saying review work was becoming “draining and demoralizing,” Godot’s foundation announced it will update its rules to reject AI-written code, AI-submitted pull requests, and even AI-generated text in person-to-person project chats. The big message: if you want to help, a real human needs to stand behind the work and fix it when it breaks.

And wow, the comments split fast. One camp was basically clapping from the cheap seats, saying AI-generated submissions are less like helpful volunteer work and more like a “denial-of-service attack on the human mind” — a brutal but very memorable way of describing endless walls of robotic text. Others treated the whole thing like a giant shrug, with the driest reaction of the thread being simply, “oh shoot, anyway.” That energy alone could fuel a thousand memes.

But not everyone was sold. Critics asked why Godot is policing the tool instead of judging whether someone’s past work was actually good. One commenter flat-out said the decision felt driven by feelings, not logic, while another argued that if people use AI to write broken code, they can also use AI to fix it. Meanwhile, some users were already swapping lists of “no-AI” software, turning the whole thing into a bigger culture-war scoreboard. So yes, this is about software — but the real show is the internet fighting over whether banning AI is common sense, moral panic, or both.