We should consider making a clear policy on AI contributions for the piefed repository
We should consider making a clear policy on AI contributions for the piefed repository
As I understand, there are currently no real guidelines for this, even though AI is currently a big topic in FOSS.In my opinion, AI can be quite dangerous for free software and that's why we really need to discuss how we can address this issue. Here are some of the reasons for that:
- Poor quality, insecure code: AI still produces hard to maintain code, that is often severely insecure. Even if you check every line of code carefully, there is a good chance you overlook something, because you won't fully understand the code, you haven't written yourself
- Licensing issues: AI often reproduces code from it's training material, which could be incompatible with this codes license
- Legal trouble: The legality of the copyright about AI is not yet really settled, so it could be a big legal risk to have AI-code in your codebase
- Ethics: AI systematically exploits the work of all open source contributors for the profit of big companies. We as part of the free software movement should reject this more openly
My idea for this policy was, that we should definetely demand for AI generated code to be marked as such (you have to disclose in your commits, if you have used AI for that). I think we should also ban entirely AI-generated PRs aswell, because they produce more work for the maintainers than they actually help with anything. Were I am not quite sure yet, is how we handle the case when someone used AI just as autocomplete, but wrote most of the code themselves? You should probably also have to disclose that, do you think we should ban something like that?
Looking forward to hear what you think about this!