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.

-- 
Marecki