When Flathub banned AI-coded app submissions last month, some critics warned the platform was denying the future by dismissing a new wave of “vibe-coded” software as out-and-out “slop”. Well, new data suggests otherwise. Nearly three-quarters of the rejected apps are already dead. Whatever got swept up in the ban doesn’t appear to be anything anyone felt bothered about keeping around. Linux developer Evangelos Paterakis, developer of Tuba, Turntable and others, did the digging, looking at 120 code repositories whose pull requests for inclusion on Flathub were rejected because of their heavy AI usage and given an “AI Slop” tag. Of those […]You're reading Flathub’s AI slop ban looks like it was the right call, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.