"If I don't know you, I don't merge you"

And if you catch somebody submitting code they can't explain, you don't know them anymore.

It's really simple. Open source has always had a social layer. Github culture tries to eliminate it, and that's the source of this vulnerability.

First thought I had too. I deliberately strip AI metadata from my PRs in certain orgs.

Why not just write the code yourself? You sound like an addict hiding their use from their friends and family.

This is inherently deceptive.

AI is for people who are proud of their obduracy.

First time you're caught, you are no longer a project contributor and your deceptive conduct will be forwarded to all other major open source projects with warnings that your code cannot be trustworthy and is a well documented legal liability. How's that sit with you?

If they had a policy to ban German speakers from submitting code to OpenJDK, it would have the same effect. None at all, which is maybe the point. It's another tool to categorize submissions/submitters they find problematic.