Comment by faidit

Thanks for the input, I still don't think there's a really clear distinction though :/

Like the fact that it's impossible to search without AI now is sort of my point, since the AI-free badge is described as projects being completely free of AI assistance, which only seems possible if you go completely off the grid while developing.

And how would one distinguish blindly vs non-blindly copy-pasting? If you use a line of code written by Claude or ChatGPT, and it works, and you need this functionality, are you supposed to rewrite it in different syntax? That seems equivalent to having AI generate art for you and then copying it by hand with different colors or slight modifications, which is still using AI imo.

I want to declare my own work AI-free because it almost totally is, but I feel like I'd be dishonest because I've definitely asked LLMs for help before and incorporated their code. Even if it was just a few lines and insights and I made changes here and there. And at least some of the assets I've used must have had AI help too. Sorites paradox kinda