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

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> writes:

> Hi Carlos, Sam,
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 03:51:33PM +0100, Sam James wrote:
>> >>> 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.
>> >> Didn't they?  Do you have a source for that?
>> >
>> > https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/5523336.irdbgypaU6@kona/
>> > ~~~
>> > As someone who was present at the initital discussion, I can assure that
>> > banning accessibility helps was not the intention.
>> > ~~~
>> > - Andreas Huettel
>> 
>> +1 (as someone else who also voted on it). We may amend it to make this
>> part clear in future.
>
> Thanks.  I find the wording to imply that it also prohibits assistive
> technologies (and I like that sense).  I'd add a paragraph claifying it
> in the sense of disallowing them:

Eh? We're saying we *don't* want to do that.

>
> 	It is expressly forbidden to contribute to this project any
> 	content that has been created with the assistance of artificial
> 	intelligence tools.
>
> 	This also includes AI-based assistive tools used in the
> 	contributing process, even if such tools do not generate the
> 	contributed code.
>
> This includes for example AI-based linters and static analyzers.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Alex