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

Justin Zobel justin at 1707.io
Mon May 19 01:33:41 BST 2025


On 18/05/2025 16:41, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2025, 08:59 Justin Zobel, <justin at 1707.io> wrote:
>
>     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.
>
>
> I'm no lawyer but I would expect that training AI will fall under fair 
> use of copyrighted code. If that's not the case already, it will 
> probably be soon. The benefits of AI to society are too large to 
> autoimpose such a roadblock.
>
> Albert

 From my understanding (what others have told me), AI generally does not 
produce good quality code though. So how is that a benefit to society?
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