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tainted-software
Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.
The intention of this list is to raise awareness of this technology's usage in popular software, as well as give people informed alternatives that they can reach for when they want to make decisions for themselves. This is not a list created so you can go and give these projects trouble for their decision. If you want to file a complaint about it with them, we consider that acceptable but ask that it be done respectfully and constructively.
For more information on why we think this list matters, please see Why not LLMs?.
Contributing
To contribute to this list, file a pull request adding it to the appropriate category, along with any known alternatives. The pull request must include links to evidence of such (social media posts, screenshots, commit history, links to CLAUDE.md, etc). Title the pull request "Add <software-name>" or such.
The criteria for being included in this repository are any of:
- One or more core/prominent developers openly use LLMs to develop this software specifically. Accepting drive-by or minor contributions that happen to use LLMs is NOT qualifying. This may change in the future.
- The software itself integrates genAI features of any kind, internally or externally.
Tainted Software
Developer Tools
| Name | Alternative(s) | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
cargo-nextest |
Just use cargo test |
CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md in repository |
jujutsu |
continue using git itself |
Various core devs openly use LLMs, (Discord link) |
Editors
| Name | Alternative(s) | Evidence |
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Libraries
Rust
| Name | Alternative(s) | Evidence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
facet |
Plain ol' serde |
@fasterthanlime is a pretty open and prominent LLM user and booster | It's pretty safe to assume any other software/libraries by @fasterthanlime are similarly tainted. |
Game Engines
| Name | Alternative(s) | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| UPBGE 0.5 | UPBGE 0.36.1 seems to be slop-free | 0.5 release notes state the use of AI in plain language |
Services
| Name | Alternative(s) | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Calibre 8.16.2 | BookLore Clbre, a Calibre fork without AI Arcalibre, a Calibre hard-fork from before AI features |
Added "Discuss selected book(s) with AI" feature |
Why not LLMs?
tktk. Could use some help writing this with concrete receipts on environmental, social, political, and economic/labor harms.