Hi Jan,
I appreciate this initiative. And I have been thinking about this lately as
well in the context of open source contributions.
Irrespective of the number of lines of code written by AI in a PR, whether
10% or 80%, the ownership lies with the project, and a reviewer *would* be
expected to review 100% of the code anyway.
So it's only fair there is atleast a heads up in the PR mentioning the same.

I'll also leave comments, if any, on the PR.

Thanks,
Rahul


On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In many PRs it is clear that AI has been a major contributor, maybe even
> written the entire code and description.
> Sometimes it is obvious, other times you get an AI "vibe" due to e.g.
> overly detailed documentation or hallucination.
> I'm not against AI assistance in code or docs, neither is the ASF. But
> there are certain things we must ensure gets right.
> ASF has a GenAI page at
> https://www.apache.org/legal/generative-tooling.html focusing on
> Copyright and licensing which is a good starting point.
> But I think it is also time to more actively take a stance as a project
> and set expectations.
>
> Discussion points:
>
> 1. Should users be encouraged to self-declare use of AI tools for
> transparency? Even minor use?
> 2. If yes to #1, where should they declare such use - in PR description,
> or also in commit-message, e.g. "Generated-By: Foo" or "AI-Assisted: yes"
> 3. We should update contributor docs, I propose a responsibility and
> transparency focus, see https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/3946
>
> Jan
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