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.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    552·
    9 days ago

    I think not allowing it at all would be worse, because then people start claiming not to use Ai while they secretly do. Allowing it with a disclosure at least makes this process a bit more transparent. You can think about ai what you want, at least handling it this way is better than not allowing it at all.

  • passepartout@feddit.org
    155·
    9 days ago

    Don’t know how bad this take is, but not using LLMs for coding assistance to some degree just for the sake of not using LLMs might not be the best option right now.

    There has to be a middle ground between letting the thing spit out whole kernel modules and refusing to use it at all.

    Also having it declared as AI assisted code might be better than the people doing it anyway undisclosed.

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      14·
      9 days ago

      The middle ground, IMO, is not letting it spit out code.

      Its almost certainly terrible, every time. Sometimes though… Its just mostly bad.

      Ive found it useful for finding errors and potential optimizations though. Just not, you know, letting it actually write anything.

      But letting it review and seeing:

      This library is currently being considered for deprecation on this mailing list, where other library is being suggested instead.

      Thats useful! Helpful, even.

      Just not the nonsense it makes on its own.

    • Khleedril@cyberplace.social
      11·
      9 days ago

      @passepartout
      Perhaps if AI were explicitly asked to write code in pidgin English (specifically something which is not meant to be compilable), and then that was used as the basis of actual code development?
      @cm0002

  • Durandal@lemmy.today
    81·
    9 days ago

    Unfortunate. Announcing this when everyone is migrating from windows… a lot of which is because of the AI bullshit in it… seems like throwing the stick in the spokes move.

    I guess it’s time to go shopping for a new distro :(

  • hotdogcharmer@lemmy.zip
    71·
    8 days ago

    Awh yeah because the type of person to use a chatbot is definitely the type of person to be honest and not take credit for what the chatbot outputs. No fucker is gonna disclose this unless they’re trying to sell a chatbot model to a greater fool.