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.
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 :(
This is about contributing code that was co-created with an llm like copilot. Not about adding “AI” features to fedora.