On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 08:21:28PM -0400, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > So I'm actually more concerned about LLM being mindlessly applied in > our communication processes (NM, bts, debconf, irc, planet, wiki, > website, debian.net stuff, etc) than one using some AI-assisted code > in our infra, at least for now.
On that front, useful "related work" are the policies that scientific journals and conferences (which are exposed *a lot* to this, given their main activity is vetting textual documents) have put in place about this. The general policy usually contains two main points (paraphrased below): (1) You are free to use AI tools to *improve* your content, but not to create it from scratch for you. This point is particular important for non-native English speakers, who can benefit a lot more than natives from tool support for tasks like proofreading/editing. I suspect the Debian community might be particularly sensible to this argument. (And note that on this one the barrier between ChatGPT-based proofreading and other grammar/ style checkers will become more and more blurry in the future.) (2) You need to disclose the fact you have used AI tools, and how you have used them. Exactly as in your case, Tiago, people managing scientific journals and conferences have absolutely no way of checking if these rules are respected or not. (They have access to large-scale plagiarism detection tools, which is a related but different concern.) They just ask people to *state* they followed this policy upon submission, but that's it. If your main concern is people using LLMs or the like in some of the processes you mention, a checkbox requiring such a statement upon submission might go a longer way than a project-wide statement (which will sit in d-d-a unknown to n-m applicants a few years from now). Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli . z...@upsilon.cc . https://upsilon.cc/zack _. ^ ._ Full professor of Computer Science o o o \/|V|\/ Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris o o o </> <\> Co-founder & CTO Software Heritage o o o o /\|^|/\ https://twitter.com/zacchiro . https://mastodon.xyz/@zacchiro '" V "'