WordPress introduces rules for responsible AI use

Clear disclosure, strict licensing and higher quality thresholds sit at the centre of WordPress’s latest move to manage the growing role of AI across its ecosystem.
New AI contribution rules signal WordPress’s effort to balance innovation with accountability while protecting reviewers from poorly verified or legally risky automated submissions.

WordPress has released new guidelines to shape how AI is used across plugins, themes, documentation and media assets. The framework focuses on transparency, accountability and maintaining the project’s open source foundations.

Contributors remain fully responsible for AI-assisted work and are expected to disclose meaningful AI use during submissions. Reviewers are encouraged to assess such contributions with awareness of how automated tools influenced the output.

Strong emphasis is placed on licensing, with all AI-generated material required to remain compatible with GPLv2 or later. Tools that restrict redistribution or reproduce incompatible code are explicitly ruled out.

The guidance also targets so-called AI slop, including untested code, fabricated references and unnecessarily complex solutions. Maintainers are authorised to reject low-quality submissions that lack apparent human oversight.

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