Hi,
David Chisnall wrote:
For various ethical reasons, I would prefer that you did not. I have
no desire to contribute to the various harms that these systems are
responsible for.
Given the very low signal to noise ratio from the reports so far, I
don’t intend to triage anything else coming from your plagiarism machine.
I perfectly understand your position and essentially share it. I am
mulling over this theme again and again.
Two main uses currently on the code for AI are:
1. analysis, bug hunting: essentially "discovery".
2. actual vibe coding, generation. "Agentic"
I understand that 1) causes a lot of "noise", but the bug may be
legitimate. At the end it is like a super-scanner or super-analyzer.
Often things lack context or use the wrong contest. Still I'd consider
them legitimate, the issue is drowning in them.
Other parts of GNUstep may have different policies.
I would propose to forbid AI generated code in all core packages (i.e.
everything on gnustep.org, in gap, gnustep-nonfsf) and proudly badge the
project as "coded by humans". Or "AI free".
I have seen this in several projects now, it could be a good selling
point especially in a "niche" project. For whatever ethical reasons
(trust, ethics, ecc) more and more people are looking for non-AI things.
We could be included in such projects.
Of course anybody using a derivative project (e.g. Ambrosia) is free to
use AI, but the vice-versa is no longer true!
Other will argue that this could slow us down, but it would be good to
have a selling point. An interesting freedom point.
We must "act now". We can revert the decision later, but vice-versa
could be painful.
Riccardo
