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

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org> 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, to create ebuilds, code, documentation, messages,
>> bug reports and so on for use in Gentoo.
>
> I very much support this idea, for all the three reasons quoted.
>
>> 2. Quality concerns.  LLMs are really great at generating plausibly
>> looking bullshit.  I suppose they can provide good assistance if you
>> are careful enough, but we can't really rely on all our contributors
>> being aware of the risks.
>
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622
>
>> 3. Ethical concerns.
>
> ...yeah. Seeing as we failed to condemn the Russian invasion of
> Ukraine in 2022, I would probably avoid quoting this as a reason for
> banning LLM-generated contributions. Even though I do, as mentioned
> above, very much agree with this point.

That's not a technical topic and we had an extended discussion about
what to do in -core, which included the risks of making life difficult
for Russian developers and contributors.

I don't think that's a helpful intervention here, sorry.