On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 02:58:45PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 04:15:50PM -0500, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Option 5 is not the status quo. > > > > Option 5 creates a right for contributors to not disclose AI usage: > > We enourage our contributors to disclose whether a contribution was > > made with AI assitance, but do not require them to do so. > > > > If this is what Debian decides, then maintainers must not force > > disclosure by asking contributors about AI assistance. > > I read option 5 as saying that we would *encourage* to disclose if AI > assisted was used, e.g: > > Assisted-by: LLM > > However, it does not *require* that a particular tag be placed in a > git commit description. > > This is the status quo. > > You seem to be saying that a maintainer would not be allowed to ask > the question, "Did you use AI", and I don't think option 5 disallows > the asking of that question. The contributor might or might not > answer the question, but there's also nothing that says that a > maintainer is forced to accept a contribution if someone answer the > question one way or another --- or not at all. >...
It is problematic when "or not at all" is a disclosure. When a potential employer in Germany asks an applicant in a job interview an impermissible question (e.g. about pregnancy, religion, sexual orientation or previous convictions), the job applicant has the legal right to tell a lie. Can Debian force GSoC contributors to disclose AI assistance when a GR states that we "do not require them to do so"? I was quite surprised that disclosing AI usage has not been considered a minimum requirement in this GR discussion. > Again, this sounds like it's very close to the status quo today, at > least to me. This might be true if you are talking only about what maintainers are doing with their own packages. But there are many other ways to contribute to Debian.[1] ~ 99% of my uploads are NMUs. Would it be OK today to upload NMUs without disclosing AI usage? AI generated contributions to our wiki do not have to be disclosed with this GR option. Knowing whether one is talking with a human or an AI is something I consider essential, and for me the status quo today is that contributing AI generated emails without disclosing the AI usage is not OK. > - Ted cu Adrian [1] https://www.debian.org/intro/help
