Re: [PATCH v3] CONTRIBUTING.d/ai: Add guidelines banning AI for contributing
From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-10-15 12:29:23
On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 01:21:03PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
This policy is based on the Gentoo policy (see link below). Cc: Carlos O'Donell <redacted> Cc: Collin Funk <redacted> Cc: Sam James <redacted> Link: <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> --- Hi! I changed obvious wording, such as replacing the project name. On top of that, I removed a misleading sentence: They are capable of providing good assistance if you are careful enough, but we can't really rely on that. I don't think it's possible to be careful enough.
Ah, and I removed the reference to LLMs, banning all AIs in general.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Have a lovely day! Alex CONTRIBUTING.d/ai | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING.d/aidiff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai b/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai new file mode 100644 index 000000000..92d5d85d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Name + AI - using artificial intelligence for contributing + +Description + It is expressly forbidden to contribute to this project any + content that has been created with the assistance of artificial + intelligence tools. + + Concerns + Copyright concerns. + At this point, the regulations concerning copyright of + generated contents are still emerging worldwide. Using + such material could pose a danger of copyright + violations, but it could also weaken claims to copyright + and void the guarantees given by copyleft licensing. + + Quality concerns. + Popular LLMs are really great at generating plausibly + looking, but meaningless content. At this point, they + pose both the risk of lowering the quality of a project, + and of requiring an unfair human effort from + contributors and maintainers to review contributions and + detect the mistakes resulting from the use of AI. + + Ethical concerns. + The business side of AI boom is creating serious ethical + concerns. Among them: + + - Commercial AI projects are frequently indulging in + blatant copyright violations to train their models. + - Their operations are causing concerns about the huge + use of energy and water. + - The advertising and use of AI models has caused + a significant harm to employees and reduction of + service quality. + - LLMs have been empowering all kinds of spam and scam + efforts. + +Caveats + This policy can be revisited, should a case been made over such + a tool that does not pose copyright, ethical, and quality + concerns.base-commit: ac6f5c32b3fae7549c5a42d96a3273adc24e5023 -- 2.51.0
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