Even more yikes. They found a third-party LLM-generated podcast and made the policy even harsher because of it? What happens when they continue to run into more LLM-generated content out in the wild?
Interestingly, this is exactly the sort of behavior people have been losing their minds about lately with regards to Codes of Conduct.
I think it's that the low quality of the LLM-generated podcast caused him to reflect on the last year's worth of (apparently, largely low-quality) LLM-generated pull requests opened on the project; not that the podcast itself was the direct cause of the change in policy.
Interestingly, this is exactly the sort of behavior people have been losing their minds about lately with regards to Codes of Conduct.