Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

[Akseli Lahtinen]

On Friday 16 May 2025 19:50:14 Eastern European Summer Time Nate Graham wrote:
> This is a complex topic that could go on for ages.
> 
> For me, if I can tell you used AI for something, it's because the result
> wasn't good, and had that "obviously AI" flavor to it. You wasted both
> of our time and some of the planet's resources.
> 
> For this reason, we already have written guidance against using AI to
> write your blog posts:
> https://ev.kde.org/rules/reimbursement_policy/#after-the-event. I would
> be in favor of extending this somewhere to also cover Bugzilla, email,
> etc, because every single instance of these where I can tell it was AI,
> it's bad and time-wasting.

I would be very much happy with something like this. 

If one uses the "AI" tools so that it actually enhances their workflow
instead of generating bunch of crap, and they actually use their own
intelligence on the thing, it's fine by me.

Though with "AI" code there's always the possibility that it's directly ripped
out from somewhere else and then there's license issues.

> 
> But if I couldn't tell you used AI, because you skillfully adapted or
> re-wrote its output using your human brain to fit the context, then the
> result was fine and no policy could prevent this, so that part is sort
> of moot IMO.
> 
> 
> Nate

- Akseli