The Fedora Council has finally come to a decision on allowing AI-assisted contributions to the project. The agreed upon guidelines are fairly straight-forward and will permit AI-assisted contributions if it’s properly disclosed and transparent.
The AI-assisted contributions policy outlined in this Fedora Council ticket is now approved for the Fedora project moving forward. AI-assisted code contributions can be used but the contributor must take responsibility for that contribution, it must be transparent in disclosing the use of AI such as with the “Assisted-by” tag, and that AI can help in assisting human reviewers/evaluation but must not be the sole or final arbiter. This AI policy also doesn’t cover large-scale initiatives which will need to be handled individually with the Fedora Council.
If you think that undisclosed AI contributions aren’t happening everywhere, you’re delusional.
Doesn’t mean I have to support the ones that actively encourage it.
I guess it’s time for some of the projects to start putting little stickers that say “hand crafted code” on them explicitly.
Properly attributed generated lines are easier to remove should courts declare them illegal.
What would projects with undeclared AI code do? Shut everything down? Revert everything until the commit before ChatGPT launched? Just say yolo and go on?
Counterpoint… there is no real enforcement beyond the honor system… so it changes very little other than expressly condoning the activity.