The alternative here is they don't allow it and get a bunch of MRs sneakily using AI anyway but not disclosing it. I'd rather be aware that an MR was made with AI than not, personally, so I think this is probably the right move.
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As long as it's properly tagged so we can avoid the hell out of it
I hope they are prepare for the AI slop DDoS. Curl wasn't, and they didn't even state they would welcome AI contributions.
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ffs
Oh, come the fuck on…
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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.
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bold move. Can't wait to see how this gets reversed within a year
!Remindme 6 months
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Much of distribution development is writing menial scripts and SPEC files. It's tedious work with little creativity. The last SPEC file for an RPM package I wrote from scratch was years ago but it was so tedious work. The Arch maintainers even argue that their PKGBUILD files are so simple, they don't pass the so-called threshold of originality and therefore are public domain anyway.
Much can be (and probably already is) automated. Compilation directives like CMake files already contain all the info needed to generate a workable if a bit bare bones SPEC file. I'd say an LLM might even be overkill for what a script could also achieve. The result is public domain anyway.
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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 :(
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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.
fedora living up to its name i see
I honestly don't see the use case
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