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Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 17, 2024,
updated May 02, 2024
AI-generated and assisted code contributions are no longer allowed in the Gentoo Linux distribution.
A ban on AI-made code was originally proposed on February 27 by Michał Górny, a member of Gentoo's council, an elected committee that governs the Linux distro. Górny argued for an AI ban for three major reasons: potential copyright infringement, quality control issues, and ethical considerations over AI's high power consumption and the role of major corporations in shaping the technology.
Copyright is certainly becoming a chronic issue for AI models, which may or may not be trained on protected materials, with Nvidia one of the latest companies to be sued. AI is also known to produce nonsensical text and code, and has even been observed to hallucinate entire software packages.
Beyond banning AI code submissions, Górny said he also wanted Gentoo to offer something unique for the Linux community.
Read on
Linuxiac:
> At the same time, however, as AI technologies become deeply ingrained in the tech industry, they also usher in various concerns ranging from ethical dilemmas to potential quality compromises.
> In light of this, the Gentoo Council, a pivotal entity in the open-source community, recently made headlines by setting a significant precedent concerning AI-generated content.
It's FOSS News:
> The world of open-source software development has not been spared either; there have been reports where contributors tried passing off low-quality AI-generated work as their own, which then went on to create issues of their own.
> And as it stands, Gentoo Linux has now taken a big step in curbing such AI-generated nonsense. Let's see what they have done.
LWN coverage:
> Gentoo Council member Michał Górny posted an RFC to the gentoo-dev mailing list in late February about banning ""'AI'-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions"" to the Gentoo Linux project. Górny wrote that the spread of the ""AI bubble"" indicated a need for Gentoo to formally take a stand on AI tools. After a lengthy discussion, the Gentoo Council voted unanimously this week to adopt his proposal and ban contributions generated with AI/ML tools.
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