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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:15:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH v4] CONTRIBUTING.d/ai: Add guidelines banning AI for
 contributing
To: <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>

This policy is based on the Gentoo policy (see link below).
However, I've modified our text to be more restrictive.

Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Cc: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Link: <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
---

Hi!

In v4, I've added a paragraph clarifying that AI assistive tools are
also included in the bad.

I've also modified 'Quality concerns' to say that AI tools should be
considered adversarial, as if controlled by Jia Tan.

And I've added a copyright notice at the bottom.


Have a lovely day!
Alex


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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai b/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai
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+Name
+	AI - artificial intelligence policy
+
+Description
+	It is expressly forbidden to contribute to this project any
+	content that has been created with the assistance of AI tools.
+
+	This also includes AI assistive tools used in the contributing
+	process, even if such tools do not generate the contributed
+	code.
+
+    Concerns
+	Copyright concerns.
+		At this point, the regulations concerning copyright of
+		generated contents are still emerging worldwide.  Using
+		such material could pose a danger of copyright
+		violations, but it could also weaken claims to copyright
+		and void the guarantees given by copyleft licensing.
+
+	Quality concerns.
+		Popular LLMs are really great at generating plausibly
+		looking, but meaningless content.  They pose both the
+		risk of lowering the quality of a project, and of
+		requiring an unfair human effort from contributors and
+		maintainers to review contributions and detect the
+		mistakes resulting from the use of AI.
+
+		AI tools should be considered adversarial, as if they
+		were a black box with Jia Tan inside them.
+
+	Ethical concerns.
+		The business side of AI boom is creating serious ethical
+		concerns.  Among them:
+
+		-  Commercial AI projects are frequently indulging in
+		   blatant copyright violations to train their models.
+		-  Their operations are causing concerns about the huge
+		   use of energy and water.
+		-  The advertising and use of AI models has caused
+		   a significant harm to employees and reduction of
+		   service quality.
+		-  LLMs have been empowering all kinds of spam and scam
+		   efforts.
+
+Caveats
+	This policy can be revisited, should a case been made over such
+	a tool that does not pose copyright, ethical, and quality
+	concerns.
+
+Copyright
+	Text derived from the Gentoo project AI policy
+	<https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy>.
+
+	SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
+
+See also
+	<https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/>

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