Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-04-15 Thread Jérôme Carretero
Hi, It's a good thing that https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy has been voted, and that it mentions: > This motion can be revisited, should a case been made over such a tool that does not pose copyright, ethical and quality concerns. I wanted to provide some meat to

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-03-21 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 15:45 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > look into formally addressing the related concerns. In my opinion, > at this point the only reasonable course of action would be to safely > ban "AI"-backed

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-03-09 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 2024-03-01 at 07:06 +, Sam James wrote: > Another person approached me after this RFC and asked whether tooling > restricted to the current repo would be okay. For me, that'd be mostly > acceptable, given it won't make suggestions based on copyrighted code. I think an important

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-03-09 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 18:04 +, Sam James wrote: > I'm a bit worried this is slightly performative - which is not a dig at > you at all - given we can't really enforce it, and it requires honesty, > but that's also not a reason to not try ;) I don't think it's really possible or feasible to

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-03-07 Thread Fco. Javier Felix Belmonte
El 27/2/24 a las 15:45, Michał Górny escribió: Hello, Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to look into formally addressing the related concerns. In my opinion, at this point the only reasonable course of action would be to safely ban "AI"-backed contribution

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-03-06 Thread martin-kokos
On Tuesday, February 27th, 2024 at 3:45 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > look into formally addressing the related concerns. In my opinion, > at this point the only reasonable course of action would be to safely > ban

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-03-05 Thread Oskari Pirhonen
On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 06:12:06 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > At the top, I noted that it will be possible in future for AI generation > to be used in a good, safe way, and we should provide some signals to > the researchers behind the AI industry on this matter. > > What should it have? > -

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-03-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
(Full disclosure: I presently work for a non-FAANG cloud company with a primary business focus in providing GPU access, for AI & other workloads; I don't feel that is a conflict of interest, but understand that others might not feel the same way). Yes, we need to formally address the concerns.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-29 Thread Sam James
Matt Jolly writes: >> But where do we draw the line? Are translation tools like DeepL >> allowed? I don't see much of a copyright issue for these. > > I'd also like to jump in and play devil's advocate. There's a fair > chance that this is because I just got back from a > supercomputing/research

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-29 Thread Zoltan Puskas
Hi, > Compare with the shitstorm at: > https://github.com/pkgxdev/pantry/issues/5358 Thank you for this, it made my day. Though I'm just a proxy maintainer for now, I also support this initiative, there should be some guard rails set up around LLM usage. > 1. Copyright concerns. At this

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-28 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 2/28/24 6:06 AM, Matt Jolly wrote: > >> But where do we draw the line? Are translation tools like DeepL >> allowed? I don't see much of a copyright issue for these. > > I'd also like to jump in and play devil's advocate. There's a fair > chance that this is because I just got back from a >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 1:50 PM Arthur Zamarin wrote: > > I know that GitHub Copilot can be limited to licenses, and even to just > the current repository. Even though, I'm not sure that the copyright can > be attributed to "me" and not the "AI" - so still gray area. So, AI copyright is a bit of

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-28 Thread Arthur Zamarin
On 27/02/2024 16.45, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > look into formally addressing the related concerns. In my opinion, > at this point the only reasonable course of action would be to safely > ban "AI"-backed contribution

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-28 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 11:08 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 28 Feb 2024, Michał Górny wrote: > > > On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 21:05 -0600, Oskari Pirhonen wrote: > > > What about cases where someone, say, doesn't have an excellent grasp of > > > English and decides to use, for

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-28 Thread Matt Jolly
But where do we draw the line? Are translation tools like DeepL allowed? I don't see much of a copyright issue for these. I'd also like to jump in and play devil's advocate. There's a fair chance that this is because I just got back from a supercomputing/research conf where LLMs were the hot

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-28 Thread David Seifert
On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 15:45 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > look into formally addressing the related concerns.  In my opinion, > at this point the only reasonable course of action would be to safely > ban "AI"-backed

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-28 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2024, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 21:05 -0600, Oskari Pirhonen wrote: >> What about cases where someone, say, doesn't have an excellent grasp of >> English and decides to use, for example, ChatGPT to aid in writing >> documentation/comments (not code) and puts

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 21:05 -0600, Oskari Pirhonen wrote: > What about cases where someone, say, doesn't have an excellent grasp of > English and decides to use, for example, ChatGPT to aid in writing > documentation/comments (not code) and puts a note somewhere explicitly > mentioning what was

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Oskari Pirhonen
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 15:45:17 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > look into formally addressing the related concerns. In my opinion, > at this point the only reasonable course of action would be to safely > ban

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 2/27/24 9:45 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > look into formally addressing the related concerns. In my opinion, > at this point the only reasonable course of action would be to safely > ban "AI"-backed contribution

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Peter Böhm
Am Dienstag, 27. Februar 2024, 18:50:15 CET schrieb Roy Bamford: > On 2024.02.27 14:45, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hello, > > > > [...] > > > > Gentoo has always stood out as something different, something that > > worked for people for whom mainstream distros were lacking. I think > > adding

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Kenton Groombridge
On 24/02/27 07:07PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2024, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 9:45 AM Michał Górny wrote: > >> > >> Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > >> look into formally addressing the related concerns. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2024, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 9:45 AM Michał Górny wrote: >> >> Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to >> look into formally addressing the related concerns. First of all, I fully support mgorny's proposal. >> 1.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Sam James
Michał Górny writes: > Hello, > > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > look into formally addressing the related concerns. In my opinion, > at this point the only reasonable course of action would be to safely > ban "AI"-backed contribution entirely. In other

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2024.02.27 14:45, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > look into formally addressing the related concerns. In my opinion, > at this point the only reasonable course of action would be to safely > ban "AI"-backed contribution

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Matthias Maier
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024, at 08:45 CST, Michał Górny wrote: > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > look into formally addressing the related concerns. In my opinion, > at this point the only reasonable course of action would be to safely > ban "AI"-backed

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 9:45 AM Michał Górny wrote: > > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > look into formally addressing the related concerns. > 1. Copyright concerns. I do think it makes sense to consider some of this. However, I feel like the proposal is

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Ionen Wolkens
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 03:45:17PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > look into formally addressing the related concerns. In my opinion, > at this point the only reasonable course of action would be to safely > ban

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Dienstag, 27. Februar 2024, 15:45:17 CET schrieb Michał Górny: > Hello, > > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > look into formally addressing the related concerns. In my opinion, > at this point the only reasonable course of action would be to safely > ban

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Sam James
Marek Szuba 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,

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Marek Szuba
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,

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 at 15:21, Kenton Groombridge wrote: > > On 24/02/27 03:45PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > > look into formally addressing the related concerns. In my opinion, > > at this point the only

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Kenton Groombridge
On 24/02/27 03:45PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > look into formally addressing the related concerns. In my opinion, > at this point the only reasonable course of action would be to safely > ban "AI"-backed contribution

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Arsen Arsenović
Michał Górny writes: > Hello, > > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > look into formally addressing the related concerns. In my opinion, > at this point the only reasonable course of action would be to safely > ban "AI"-backed contribution entirely. In other