Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools

[Julius Künzel]

Hi,

I have the feeling that two topics are being mixed here. One is AI and the other one is spam.

12.05.2025 15:41:41 Akseli <akselmo at akselmo.dev>:

> On 12 May 2025 16.28.02 EEST, Jin Liu <m.liu.jin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Akseli <akselmo at akselmo.dev> 于2025年5月12日周一 20:53写道：
>>> 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.
>>
>> I assume this doesn't include auto-completions done by Github Copilot?
>> Because currently I guess it types ~70% of code and commit messages
>> for me. And I would only accept when it types exactly what's in my
>> mind. So I don't see if that's any different from "traditional"
>> auto-completion in IDE and Chinese IME.
>>
>> -jin
>
> I'm mostly concerned about bug reports and such written by these bots.
>

Bug reports written by bots sound to me like spam independently of whether AI is involved.

> My pragmatic stance is: As long as your code works and doesn't overcomplicate things, I don't see that much of an issue.
>
> My more idealistic stance is banning these tools KDE wide because of how unethical they can be, and how bad they can be from ecological sense.
>

That would be the part of the discussion that is AI related.

> Anyway, I just want get rid of the AI slop spam, be it code or bug reports: the lengthy SEO'd messages with useless information in them.
>

Not having seen such a report myself yet, your description sounds as if it is off-topic. Which again means it can be considered spam regardless of how it is generated.

I don't think a policy will help to keep bots away. It could help though if it is a natural person writing low quality reports with the help of AI on a valid topic / bug.

> - Aks

Julius
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