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 34C3931AF1F for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:50:15 +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=1760543416; cv=none; b=OvUupa9uDQ1sJkzawBm0rHlbtKohiKDNro1Bz0DoT8/C5ttzC11bp5vGKiBI3zy7BQ5Iu5G4LQdUPxM3qGrF0lorv9Lkle1MgU3GBFk237wopeLBusChOU9Wn1vcjA8VNOVw9EpXPMYg2AYswowoOD+5P3KPSfnq6SrlFiLyTJE= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1760543416; c=relaxed/simple; bh=PGyuPuERgl+7EYQZKb+rN0ymj19cxqVn7IQnvQjTIsg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=GjHfNwHSWRqbs+jIAjMtWm/A0P2CywyIKMAqeUZBTdMF5GEuzMArYs3adH58wwAtFVHkbVasUq2et0bJwsxG3EhrUp+rFTKKObCOK6FcM8wn2xgq4iuQTfdVGt77qxXfiHVNstkEQ61Xu9dI0KpokLiS/lvWxA9HAwjRci50S4E= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=rW20hkRA; 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="rW20hkRA" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 80776C4CEF8; Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:50:14 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1760543415; bh=PGyuPuERgl+7EYQZKb+rN0ymj19cxqVn7IQnvQjTIsg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=rW20hkRAUUIRE43hyNiHikrmye6HVHh8ZSUQkCmyaB5dxZx/0OJWTrLKcLChZ+xz+ K/U/L4nZzS+n3lHN99SkVNXdIMbxZPfr3o6KNH8sHetpR5jjSQtH+ogVMOY/ChjfOQ wbAma0rAnNhplISNqyvGtGrJfx/E/FNJJefknCBztOuOmP9fbpSB2iYgip85TcK690 YHpVGQhLXymF9fY946lWza/QCpxNS/kOIx+qT/jr8nX5o9Oa6p3eSmQD+58MOyb6yM pgPJ/eDrqPZmnKGPtrwF+iHa6ayZtJcqnRLuse6V2hh64j2Oh4SjK7k3pDwYInK8z1 LfbcZ83h6JApw== Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:50:12 +0200 From: Alejandro Colomar To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alejandro Colomar , Carlos O'Donell , Collin Funk , Sam James Subject: [PATCH v4] CONTRIBUTING.d/ai: Add guidelines banning AI for contributing Message-ID: <4599445186b3e659166f5c73f682467703396e9e.1760543375.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 Link: Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar --- Hi! In v4, I've added a paragraph clarifying that AI assistive tools are also included in the bad. I've also modified 'Quality concerns' to say that AI tools should be considered adversarial, as if controlled by Jia Tan. And I've added a copyright notice at the bottom. Have a lovely day! Alex CONTRIBUTING.d/ai | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+) create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING.d/ai diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai b/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai new file mode 100644 index 000000000..faab2df1b --- /dev/null +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +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. + + 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 and water. + - 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 the Gentoo project AI policy + . + + SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 + +See also + base-commit: ac6f5c32b3fae7549c5a42d96a3273adc24e5023 -- 2.51.0