Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools

[Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

On Monday, May 12th, 2025 at 16:19, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:

> 

> 

> It being generated by AI is not the same as it being low quality
> though? Are we against low quality or against AI?

I think there is a big difference between just low quality and AI.

Naturally high quality contributions are nice, but if somebody puts in time
to contribute and just the quality is lacking, I am willing to help.
There is effort spent on both sides.

With AI, there is no effort spend on the other side, just some wasted energy
consumption. With such contributions you can DoS any organization.

Greetings
Christoph


> 

> On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM Akseli akselmo at akselmo.dev wrote:
> 

> > On 12 May 2025 16.40.44 EEST, Harald Sitter sitter at kde.org wrote:
> > 

> > > I mean, I guess.
> > > 

> > > I am not exactly sure what a sign somewhere will help. People can just
> > > ignore it, after all, they ignored the code of conduct (be
> > > considerate) as well as the seemingly obvious courtesy of not wasting
> > > other people's time... may as well ignore the sign. At the same time
> > > routing all input through anti-AI AIs is probably not a useful
> > > expenditure of time either. 🤷
> > 

> > Maybe it wont help, but at least we have a sign to tap on. "This was obviously generated with AI, we dont allow that, bla bla"
> > 

> > Rules will never be followed by bad actors but at least when they exist they can be enforced.
> > 

> > > On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM Akseli akselmo at akselmo.dev wrote:
> > > 

> > > > Hi
> > > > 

> > > > There's been a lot of "AI" slop spam to various KDE projects, bug reports, forums, etc..
> > > > 

> > > > We should take a more public stance on disallowing all this slop. Lengthy gitlab issues that are just full of nonsense generated by a bot just take time out of everyones schedules, trying to decipher if its serious or not.
> > > > 

> > > > Other projects have already done something similar, see for example: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/loupe-no-longer-allows-generative-ai-contributions/27327
> > > > 

> > > > I don't care if someone uses those tools in their personal projects, but bringing this slop in to our shared space just frustrates people and eats resources to go through.
> > > > 

> > > > Can we have somekind of official "please don't AI slop in our places" sign somewhere?
> > > > 

> > > > Thanks,
> > > > - Akseli
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