From: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 11:46:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87plwher6v.fsf@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a2b8c68b1649213cf237f40e41f9a460a5667c34.camel@gentoo.org> (=?utf-8?Q?=22Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny=22's?= message of "Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:45:17 +0100")
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024, at 08:45 CST, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to
> look into formally addressing the related concerns. 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.
+1
> 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.
This is my main concern, but all of the other points are valid as well.
Best,
Matthias
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-27 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-27 14:45 [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo Michał Górny
2024-02-27 15:10 ` Arsen Arsenović
2024-02-27 15:21 ` Kenton Groombridge
2024-02-27 15:31 ` Alex Boag-Munroe
2024-02-27 16:11 ` Marek Szuba
2024-02-27 16:29 ` Sam James
2024-02-27 16:48 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2024-02-27 17:02 ` Ionen Wolkens
2024-02-27 17:41 ` Rich Freeman
2024-02-27 18:07 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-02-27 18:27 ` Kenton Groombridge
2024-02-27 17:46 ` Matthias Maier [this message]
2024-02-27 17:50 ` Roy Bamford
2024-02-27 18:40 ` Peter Böhm
2024-02-27 18:04 ` Sam James
2024-03-09 14:57 ` Michał Górny
2024-02-27 19:17 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-02-28 3:05 ` Oskari Pirhonen
2024-02-28 3:12 ` Michał Górny
2024-02-28 10:08 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-02-28 11:06 ` Matt Jolly
2024-02-28 20:20 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-03-01 7:06 ` Sam James
2024-03-09 15:00 ` Michał Górny
2024-02-28 13:09 ` Michał Górny
2024-02-28 10:34 ` David Seifert
2024-02-28 18:50 ` Arthur Zamarin
2024-02-28 19:26 ` Rich Freeman
2024-03-01 6:33 ` Zoltan Puskas
2024-03-05 6:12 ` Robin H. Johnson
2024-03-06 6:53 ` Oskari Pirhonen
2024-03-08 3:59 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2024-03-09 15:04 ` Michał Górny
2024-03-09 21:13 ` Duncan
2024-03-10 1:53 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-03-06 13:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " martin-kokos
2024-03-08 7:09 ` Fco. Javier Felix Belmonte
2024-03-21 15:25 ` Michał Górny
2024-04-15 19:50 ` Jérôme Carretero
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