Ask HN: Is there a list of projects that will *not* adopt AI?

17 90s_dev 5 4/29/2025, 5:17:56 AM
With every project and it's grandma integrating AI, there's definitely going to be a niche that sprouts up of projects that say we will never adopt or use AI. Are there any lists of such projects?

Comments (5)

muzani · 1d ago
There's projects like Cara which are vehemently the anti-AI Instagram. Steam also blocks AI projects unless you can prove the AI images were ethically trained. Itch.io is a bit softer and requires a declaration of AI use so some groups can filter them out.

There's not that many and it seems it mostly involves the art community. There's also different levels of non-adoption.

cpach · 1d ago
If you list packages included in OpenBSD I would guess that you’ll find many projects that will not integrate AI.
oulipo · 1d ago
At least at Gouach we might use Machine Learning / AI to preventively detect defects and push alerts for our repairable and fireproof batteries, but:

- we won't link data to personally identifiable informations, - and we will publish the estimate of the CO2 emissions of our machine learning setup

BTW if you're looking for your next e-bike battery, check what we're building :) https://gouach.com

bigyabai · 1d ago
> we will never adopt or use AI.

How can anyone realistically enforce such a standard?

Tireings · 1d ago
No one cares how you build something.

Was not relevant with frameworks or anything else.

And if you see this as a business opportunity: you will loose this game. All big companies out there leverage LLM/ai to have their work force a few % more efficient.

LLM can level a play field but only when you use it