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

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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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 AI-generated so that someone else can take a closer
> look?
> 
> I'd personally not be the biggest fan of this if it wasn't in something
> like a PR or ml post where it could be reviewed before being made final.
> But the most impportant part IMO would be being up-front about it.

I'm afraid that wouldn't help much.  From my experiences, it would be
less effort for us to help writing it from scratch, than trying to
untangle whatever verbose shit ChatGPT generates.  Especially that
a person with poor grasp of the language could have trouble telling
whether the generated text is actually meaningful.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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