Dear all, We now have a second draft of the AI policy:
https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/28941 based on a round of feedback. Please review the 2nd draft and leave any more feedback. I would like to have it merged after this coming round of feedback. Please have a look. Thanks, Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 1:46 PM Jason Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I opened this PR with a draft of a SymPy AI code contribution policy: > > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/28941 > > I suggest that people review and I will improve the text based on the > feedback there until we have some consensus. > > This will not solve all issues associated with the onslaught of AI slop, > but can at least get some kind of policy codified that we can use to help > fend off the slop. > > Jason > moorepants.info > +01 530-601-9791 > > > On Thu, Jan 1, 2026 at 2:29 PM Sangyub Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Let's do a simple test. Instead of commenting these PRs by typing text >> in, let's just attach an image containing the comment. This is no problem >> for human beings, but I expect AI-bots to fail in understanding the >> comment, unless they are connected with an OCR or use vision-language >> models. >> >> I don't think that it is difficult problem to solve than using Captcha >> for submitting a PR. That does not 100% solve the problem but at least >> raises barrier to professional spammers and scammers who can bypass that. >> Many social media services should have endured much more chaos than SymPy >> or Github for this stuff, so we can use their experiences. There are always >> more stricter options like policies allowing stricter face/ID verified >> accounts. >> Github may not have submitting captcha before PR, but we can implement >> something like CI check with 3rd party captcha service for new contributors. >> >> On Wednesday, December 31, 2025 at 12:31:10 AM UTC+1 Oscar wrote: >> >>> This one here looks like a real AI bot: >>> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/28862 >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/5810a4bc-b237-4ee7-a707-cb29cddea2d2n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/5810a4bc-b237-4ee7-a707-cb29cddea2d2n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AiQqbW5CL%3DOyk6h3jnBCjrN4oBbv_wW4kxHt-yy7U3zPg%40mail.gmail.com.
