The “AI-free” part refers more to AI usage in building the alternatives, but I get your point.

It’s a fair point, the original idea was to make it easier for people to switch to open source software by framing it as “I’m looking for an X alternative, so here’s A, B and C”. But I can see the concern around that as well.

The main detector at the moment is looking at the contributors in their commits. But you’re right, it will require some more detection.