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Gentoo bans AI-created contributions
Gentoo Council member Michał Górny posted an RFC to the gentoo-dev mailing list in late February about banning "'AI'-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions" to the Gentoo Linux project. Górny wrote that the spread of the "AI bubble" indicated a need for Gentoo to formally take a stand on AI tools. After a lengthy discussion, the Gentoo Council voted unanimously this week to adopt his proposal and ban contributions generated with AI/ML tools.
In other words, explicitly forbid people from using ChatGPT, Bard, GitHub Copilot, and so on, to create ebuilds, code, documentation, messages, bug reports and so on for use in Gentoo. Rich Freeman wrote that he thought it made sense to consider the use of AI, but suggested the Gentoo developer certificate of origin(DCO) already had the necessary language to prohibit AI-generated contributions. " Oskari Pirhonen wanted to know about cases where a contributor uses ChatGPT to help with writing documentation or commit messages (but not code) because they don't have " an excellent grasp of English".
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