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VibeCoded AI-Slop License v1.0 lets authors disclaim AI-generated code quality and provenance
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A GitHub gist by NicolasCARPi publishes a permissive software license that explicitly acknowledges code may have been written by AI and disclaims any expectation of quality, provenance, or support.
The license is a satirical-but-functional artifact that formalizes a growing reality: code is being shipped without human review or understanding. For engineers evaluating dependencies, it signals that some authors are openly disclaiming responsibility for AI-generated code, which complicates supply-chain risk assessment.
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The license grants unrestricted use, modification, and distribution with no attribution or explanation required.
It explicitly states the software may have been written substantially or entirely by AI and the author may not have read, tested, or understood it.
No warranty, no support, and no obligation from the author to remember how the software works are provided.
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The VibeCoded AI-Slop License v1.0 is a permissive license published as a GitHub gist by NicolasCARPi. It grants broad permissions: users may use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, sell, or delete the software without asking permission, providing attribution, or publishing modifications. The license is functionally similar to MIT or BSD in its permissiveness but adds explicit language about AI authorship and quality disclaimers that traditional licenses do not address.
The provenance section is the license's distinguishing feature. It states the software may have been written partially, substantially, or entirely by AI systems responding to vague prompts, and that the author may not have written, read, reviewed, understood, tested, or run the code. It also notes the author may not have noticed that dependencies do not exist or remembered why the repository was created. This language formalizes a scenario that is increasingly common but rarely acknowledged in licensing terms.
The quality and support sections set expectations to zero. The software may be mediocre, may barely work, or may appear to work while doing something different. There is no support; bug reports and pull requests may or may not be read or reviewed. The author is under no obligation to remember how the software works. For an engineer considering this code as a dependency, the license is effectively a warning label: the author is telling you nothing about the code's reliability, and you are on your own.
The license does not appear to have been widely circulated. Only one feed carried it, and the gist shows two stars and zero forks. It reads as a commentary on AI-assisted development practices as much as a usable license. Whether it gains adoption or remains a cultural artifact, it surfaces a real gap: existing open-source licenses were written assuming human authorship and human accountability, and this one explicitly removes both assumptions.
For teams that rely on dependency scanning or license compliance tooling, this license would likely be classified as permissive but non-standard. Its practical effect on adoption is that it makes the author's lack of responsibility explicit and legally codified, which could either deter use or simply be ignored in the same way many permissive licenses are. The license stops working as a signal only if it becomes so common that it loses its shock value.
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