Marek Szuba <mare...@gentoo.org> writes: > On 2024-02-27 14:45, Michał Górny wrote: > >> In my opinion, at this point the only reasonable course of action >> would be to safely ban "AI"-backed contribution entirely. In other >> words, explicitly forbid people from using ChatGPT, Bard, GitHub >> Copilot, and so on, to create ebuilds, code, documentation, messages, >> bug reports and so on for use in Gentoo. > > I very much support this idea, for all the three reasons quoted. > >> 2. Quality concerns. LLMs are really great at generating plausibly >> looking bullshit. I suppose they can provide good assistance if you >> are careful enough, but we can't really rely on all our contributors >> being aware of the risks. > > https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622 > >> 3. Ethical concerns. > > ...yeah. Seeing as we failed to condemn the Russian invasion of > Ukraine in 2022, I would probably avoid quoting this as a reason for > banning LLM-generated contributions. Even though I do, as mentioned > above, very much agree with this point.
That's not a technical topic and we had an extended discussion about what to do in -core, which included the risks of making life difficult for Russian developers and contributors. I don't think that's a helpful intervention here, sorry.
