From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E2912DA777 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:29:11 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1761586152; cv=none; b=h8LEJe4iBeZn3V5Ka+vE1xuZN/CXwC1CdHH3Z9SD8dIysrIQE1i0XKM0cfDg9Uh1Y4M0pfucDZ08Br/14TkMt3b2YNdfaUzkRRi3SOUJufJT0aWoudGQBV8Zbqa2wAuoUz1TuPBckwSPm9tPQMFREzTEWwVsetiS0V/cMmHMg2I= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1761586152; c=relaxed/simple; bh=fU+GsW2+PIzQDCxb3ti4rXgAybY6unmctx6l0Y37Wto=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=GulBryfvGfIKezQcZHY8fyQDBg5Wo2qWDGVVf5fO2ZldG6MSWheoDAZt5Y5EIrbRD9Ulh85i9QutAzwO7D+SgzlTi7VxGkT8JRvo1BHxIn8MqHkdbBm8Lug0tEGKSyRcBwEd3YZhcAb58+UN02kopBJaIDoIeBRIGps+Fm56cZQ= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=lmQQUYXm; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="lmQQUYXm" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 40B2FC4CEF1; Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:29:10 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1761586151; bh=fU+GsW2+PIzQDCxb3ti4rXgAybY6unmctx6l0Y37Wto=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=lmQQUYXm3VEBy6iLMnPz42gD4QHMBoNcZAJUdtOfUvigPjifSrFZf9gE6rPouUPyo 9wD9N6uI7V7NQAMAluxvpwY8VjpmwHxdDvdAssFdAZoWKjnwJk+haxSawpCIIwUKaU w+8gmH3YY7bdT4dfGz17slpEoxjMPb6WgeryKysfGS/8BFWmwmNbu89IwjOJEkQCCP 4EOMEX5moLX4UEkL/jL9PJ3fiiAbE5TQWd6B8l/ZpTDM8VRGCj+MxWuxGBC7VFs9Rh 2Zcxw6yUEZdO7SfGW0uXNED14y8c+ODo5jZrr6GVPz7P2pX4uwqPF1du4JkIFzSMfS 1AwTJY4NBj9Qw== Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:29:08 +0100 From: Alejandro Colomar To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alejandro Colomar , Carlos O'Donell , Collin Funk , Sam James , "G. Branden Robinson" Subject: [PATCH v6] CONTRIBUTING.d/ai: Add guidelines banning AI for contributing Message-ID: <07d0b354caffa459dd8a40d31fefcf5315513a40.1761586102.git.alx@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.51.0 References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: This policy is based on the Gentoo policy (see link below). However, I've modified our text to be more restrictive. Cc: Carlos O'Donell Cc: Collin Funk Cc: Sam James Cc: "G. Branden Robinson" Link: Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar --- CONTRIBUTING.d/ai | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+) create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING.d/ai diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai b/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai new file mode 100644 index 000000000..63cf3d548 --- /dev/null +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +Name + AI - artificial intelligence policy + +Description + It is expressly forbidden to contribute to this project any + content that has been created with the assistance of AI tools. + + This also includes AI assistive tools used in the contributing + process, even if such tools do not generate the contributed + code. For example, AI linters and AI static analyzers are + forbidden. + + Exceptions + As an exception to the above, AI assistive tools which don't + have any influence on the contribution other than enabling the + contributor to work with its computer (e.g., screen reader, + text to speech) --where the contributor verifies the output to + the best of its ability-- are allowed, and the contributor need + not disclose their use. + + Concerns + Copyright concerns. + At this point, the regulations concerning copyright of + generated contents are still emerging worldwide. Using + such material could pose a danger of copyright + violations, but it could also weaken claims to copyright + and void the guarantees given by copyleft licensing. + + Quality concerns. + Popular LLMs are really great at generating plausibly + looking, but meaningless content. They pose both the + risk of lowering the quality of a project, and of + requiring an unfair human effort from contributors and + maintainers to review contributions and detect the + mistakes resulting from the use of AI. + + AI tools should be considered adversarial, as if they + were a black box with Jia Tan inside them. + + Ethical concerns. + The business side of AI boom is creating serious ethical + concerns. Among them: + + - Commercial AI projects are frequently indulging in + blatant copyright violations to train their models. + - Their operations are causing concerns about the huge + use of energy, water, and other natural resources. + - The advertising and use of AI models has caused + a significant harm to employees and reduction of + service quality. + - LLMs have been empowering all kinds of spam and scam + efforts. + +Caveats + This policy can be revisited, should a case been made over such + a tool that does not pose copyright, ethical, and quality + concerns. + +Copyright + Text derived from (and more restrictive than) the Gentoo project + AI policy + . + + SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 + +See also + + base-commit: cef39ff51bfd016d7079baefbf2a39f0fed7549b -- 2.51.0