Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools

[Akseli Lahtinen]

On Monday 12 May 2025 18:06:13 Eastern European Summer Time Christoph Cullmann 
wrote:
> 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
> 

Pretty much what you said.

And sure, there's no obvious ways to deduct if someone is using AI to
generate their things or not. 

What I want though is have a rule to point at the obvious ones: 
"Stop wasting our time or go away." 

I know there's no perfect solution nor we can't really block them. 
But having something is better than nothing.

I hope we could follow what other projects are doing, like the one I linked.

- Aks

> > 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


Best regards,
- Aks