On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 04:24:53PM +0300, Wolfgang Jeltsch via ghc-devs wrote:
> I sense that the text has notably moved towards the “pro-LLM” side.
> Sometimes this led to outright wrong statements, like the following:
> 
> > If you carefully review and understand every line of code or
> > documentation produced with LLM assistance, revise it where necessary,
> > and take full responsibility for every line, that constitutes human
> > authorship.
> 
> No, it doesn’t. An author is a person who *created* the work. If the
> work was assembled by an LLM, based on only guidelines by the person in
> question, then said person acted only as a reviewer, not as an author.

Would it help if the text were changed to

  "... that constitutes human authorship for the purposes of this
  policy."

? That is, make it clear the policy is not trying to define a general
notion of "human authorship" but rather specify when a submission
meets a particular criterion relevant to contributing to GHC?

Tom
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