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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/05/2025 01:40, Christoph Cullmann
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">Hi,
just as a concrete example: what to do with
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/merge_requests/698">https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/merge_requests/698</a>
That is no AI spam but something that doesn't look broken and the submitter did
do manual work.
Can I now accept that just as MIT?
Greetings
Christoph
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<p>If the contributor cannot tell you the license(s) of the code
that was used to generate the code, then it's literally gambling
that this code wasn't taken from another project by Gemini and
used without their permission or used in a way that violates the
license and opens up the KDE e.V. to litigation.</p>
<p>This is an absolutely possible scenario if the author happens to
look around for their code being re-used. KDE e.V. CAN NOT accept
AI contributions because the source of the code isn't known.</p>
<p>It really scares me that we would even consider accepting this. I
fully understand that it is impossible to tell if a user is lying
about generating code with an AI, but we have to at least remove
the KDE e.V. from possible harm by rejecting code unless it is
sourced from a license and privacy respecting model. Which I'm
sure there are very few of and the ones that exist would have very
little code as every single piece of code would have to be audited
by the owner of the model to ensure that it can be distributed and
used in their software, and that the owners accepts this.</p>
<p>Of course, this still all boils down to trusting contributors.
They can get code from anywhere and claim at as their own. AI just
makes it much easier for them to do it.</p>
<p>Justin<br>
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