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 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.
> 
> 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 have a strong suspicion that these translation tools are trained
on copyrighted translations of books and other copyrighted material.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny