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AI policy for contributions to PieFed (codeberg.org)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/piefed_dev@piefed.social
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This project does not allow contributions generated by large languages models (LLMs). We are taking these steps due to:

  • The potential negative influence of AI generated content on quality, developer alienation from their code and skill rot.
  • Legal complications such as the inability to claim copyright and ensure others' licensing and copyright have not been violated.
  • Ethical concerns including but not limited to those regarding intellectual property theft, environmental impact, the effect on already-marginalized groups, devaluing labor for the purpose of concentrating power among the billionaire class, etc.

This ban of AI generated content applies to all parts of the project, including, but not limited to, code, documentation, issues, and artworks. An exception applies for translating texts for issues, discussions, and their comments to English.

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[–] 3 points 6 months ago

Translation is one of the things that LLMs and other deep learning models are actually pretty good at and has been at the core of just about every mainstream translation engine for years now (since before ChatGPT and the "AI" bubble was a thing - 2020 for Google Translate as an example).

This is an area where the technology could help us, the developers, communicate with users and other potential developers. There are multiple contributions and features that have been added to PieFed that have come from non-English speakers already. Some examples would be allowing things like furigana (ruby) notation in markdown and making post slugs nicer in some non-English laguages. Being able to communicate those kinds of issues to us and even work collaboratively on fixes is worth it in our opinion to allow for machine-assisted translation.

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