Re: [PATCH v3] CONTRIBUTING.d/ai: Add guidelines banning AI for contributing

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>]

On 10/15/25 7:21 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> This policy is based on the Gentoo policy (see link below).
> 
> Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
> Cc: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
> Cc: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
> Link: <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy>
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
> ---

Needs a v4 so we can review the final CC-BY-SA-4.0 license requirements.

> Hi!
> 
> I changed obvious wording, such as replacing the project name.
> On top of that, I removed a misleading sentence:
> 
> 	They are capable of providing good assistance if you are careful
> 	enough, but we can't really rely on that.
> 
> I don't think it's possible to be careful enough.
> 
> 
> Have a lovely day!
> Alex
> 
>   CONTRIBUTING.d/ai | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 42 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING.d/ai
> 
> diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai b/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..92d5d85d6
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai
> @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
> +Name
> +	AI - using artificial intelligence for contributing
> +
> +Description
> +	It is expressly forbidden to contribute to this project any
> +	content that has been created with the assistance of artificial
> +	intelligence tools.

OK.

Though it has been discussed on-list that this policy could be seen as
forbiding assistive technologies, but that this was not the intent of
the Gentoo Council's wording.

I don't have better wording.

> +
> +    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.  At this point, 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.
> +
> +	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.

The original content is CC-BY-SA 4.0, and so you need attribution and
a link to the license and a statement that you altered it.

e.g.
This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
Text derived from the [Gentoo project AI policy](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy), used under the Creative Commons Attribution license.

> 
> base-commit: ac6f5c32b3fae7549c5a42d96a3273adc24e5023


-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.