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

["Peter Böhm" <peter.bo@web.de>]

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 "made by real people" to the list of our advantages would be
> > a good thing — but we need to have policies in place, to make sure
> > shit
> > doesn't flow in.
> > 
> > Compare with the shitstorm at:
> > https://github.com/pkgxdev/pantry/issues/5358
> 
> Michał,
> 
> An excellent piece of prose setting out the rationale.
> I fully support it.

I would like to add the following:

Last year we had a chatbot in our Gentoo forum that posted 76 posts on 
2024-12-19. An inexperienced moderator (me) then asked his colleagues on the 
basis of which forum rules we can ban this chatbot:

"Do we have a rule somewhere that an AI and a chatbot are not allowed to log 
in? I have read our Guideĺines ( https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-525.html ) and found no such prohibition. On what basis could we even block 
a chatbot ?"

The answer from two experienced colleagues was that this is already covered by 
our forum rules, because chatbots usually cannot (yet) fulfill the requirements 
of a forum post and therefore violate our Guideĺines.

To be honest, I asked myself at the time what would happen if we had a clearly 
recognizable AI as a user that made (reasonably) sensible posts. We would then 
have no chance of banning this AI user without an explicit prohibition. I 
would be much more comfortable if we clearly communicated that we do not 
accept an AI as a user.

Yes, I would also be very happy to see this proposal implemented.

-- 
Best regards,
Peter (aka pietinger)