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

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

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>>>>> 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.

Ulrich

[1] https://www.deepl.com/translator

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