Everyone disliked that.
very silly to be upset about this policy
Accountability: You MUST take the responsibility for your contribution: Contributing to Fedora means vouching for the quality, license compliance, and utility of your submission. All contributions, whether from a human author or assisted by large language models (LLMs) or other generative AI tools, must meet the project’s standards for inclusion. The contributor is always the author and is fully accountable for the entirety of these contributions.
Contribution & Community Evaluation: AI tools may be used to assist human reviewers by providing analysis and suggestions. You MUST NOT use AI as the sole or final arbiter in making a substantive or subjective judgment on a contribution, nor may it be used to evaluate a person’s standing within the community (e.g., for funding, leadership roles, or Code of Conduct matters). This does not prohibit the use of automated tooling for objective technical validation, such as CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, or spam filtering. The final accountability for accepting a contribution, even if implemented by an automated system, always rests with the human contributor who authorizes the action.
the code is going to be held to the same standards as always, so it’s not like they’re going to be blindly adding slop
you can’t stop people from using LLMs, how would you know the difference? so formalizing the process allows for better accountability
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I think having a policy that forces disclose of LLM code is important. It’s also important to solidify that AI code should only ever be allowed to exist in userland/ring 3. If you can’t hold the author accountable, the code should not have any permissions or be packaged with the OS.
I can maybe see using an LLM for basic triaging of issues, but I also fear that adding that system will lead to people placing more trust in it than they should have.
but you can hold the author accountable, that’s what OP’s quoted text is about.
I know, that was me just directly voicing that opinion. I do still think that AI code should not be allowed in anything that eve remotely needs security.
Even if they can still be held accountable, I don’t think it’s a good idea to allow something that is known to hallucinate believable code to write important code. Just makes everything a nightmare to debug.
The AI hate crowd are getting increasingly nonsensical, I see it as any other software, if it’s more open that’s the best.
The AI hate crowd are getting increasingly nonsensical
Sure this isn’t true, but go off.
🙄 I see y’all’s posts I’m old not insensible
Old and wrong is possible.
Me getting links to AI generated wikis where nearly all the information is wrong but of course I’m overreacting because AI is only used by real professionals who already are experts in their domain. I just need to wait 5 years and it’ll probably be only half wrong.
It’s under the same process for validation, criticize on each case.
I’m still working on a colleague’s AI generated module that used 2,000 lines of code to do something that could’ve been done in 500. Much productivity is being had by all.
If you wrote 4x the code it must be 4x as good!
Sure, it’s just software. It’s useless software which makes everything it is involved in worse and it’s being shoved into everything to prop up the massive bubble that all the tech companies have shoveled all their money into, desperate for any actual use case to justify all their terrible ‘investments.’
seems sensible.
The thing is it’ll probably be fine for the end product beyond the wave of codeslop that will be brought to the project once the shitty vibe coders hear the news. that’s just more work for the volunteers but you’re right that it isn’t really that different of a policy in practice
Any use of a popular large language model likely violates the GPL and can be counted as plagarism. Vibe coders and LLM pushers have no good answer to being accused of plagarism.
This rule change doesn’t really change anything other than making it easier for maintainers to filter out all the slop submissions and being able to punish users who use LLMs but don’t disclose it.
Who even knows at this point. Many of the highest paid consultants, lawyers and lobbyists argue about whether creating models that regurgitate copyrighted material is covered by the datamining exception in EU copyright law. They don’t benefit from a quick solution. I’m sure the situation in the US is just as dumb.
Licensing can only give you additional rights to use a copyrighted work, it can’t really take away rights that you would have even without a license.
Imho, generative AI should probably be treated like (lossy) compression. Especially when models created based on works with the intention to create similar works.
I’d love to see the chaos on the LKML if some idiot tried to submit “AI assisted” code there.
TBH, if any distro was going to do this… well, I’m not surprised it’s Fedora. I don’t want to get into a sectarian fight about distro preferences here (this is a leftist website, way more crap to be sectarian about instead, lol), but… yeah.
I am rather fond of Fedora. I still use it on my laptop. At the end of the day it is a glorified testbed for Red Hat (read: IBM) though, so yea.
A bit surprised Ubuntu didn’t do this first, but then again Ubuntu is actually widely deployed as a server OS for some reason, while Fedora is primarily used by end-users and GTK developers. If Ubuntu made the first move, the Internet might actually stop working and we’d all have to touch grass.
As pointed out elsewhere and as i think would make some intuitive sense, they are not just directly letting chatgpt write an update to the OS, but making rules for how contributors who use AI code are to be treated (The same as any other coder, with the same requirements).
Now if they were using AI to also vet the code that would end with computers exploding.I think the most likely bad result from this will be a lot of people without the necessary skill tying up other people’s time looking through their vibe coded nonsense to shoot it down. But that was going to happen anyway.
From my (admittedly, limited) experience, sign-offs are often relatively shallow sanity checks. Nothing about this patch looks egregious? It solves a known problem? It makes it though the CI pipeline? Approved. When dealing with languages like C, where very subtle mistakes can introduce defects and vulnerabilities, I would not trust a LLM to do the brunt of the due diligence which would ordinarily be coming from the contributor (who typically spends a lot more time thinking about the problem than the person signing off on the patch). I’ll admit this isn’t a novel problem, but the amount of scrutiny applied to submissions will definitely need to increase if this becomes a standard process.
I use fedora on a couple of machines - it’s purely pragmatic. It’s a great distro - always been solid for me worked great on my hardware (some common and some exotic), never had a update that’s broken my system (cough arch cough) but stays pretty cutting edge. I also like Gnome - so disregard my opinion lol
I also like Gnome
It’s so good.
Clean, elegant consistent design, and simple enough to get out the way.
Excellent performance.
I am the one person who likes the workflow.
I also prefer gtk to qt for development purposes, so it’s nice to have my gtk stuff feel at home
AI assisted code has probably already been submitted to the kernel and nothing has happened. As long as you have a proper review process, AI submitted code is no less dangerous than code written by a human who doesn’t fully know what they’re doing.
wasn’t there some contributions on lkml using gpl version 4 or 6? i cannot remember the exact details but they were clearly ai commits
I will be later interested to see the effects from this
I will later laugh at the horrors that are unleashed upon Fedora
Or it be quietly changed after a week or so
Gentoo stays winning
Yeah but it’s inevitable that some of your own code gets on there and my god! that stuff has been drivel on every gentoo distro I’ve run
All Fedora systems are well-administered in the same way, but every broken Gentoo installation is broken differently.
I’m just circlejerking really. Both have their niches. Fedora is solid. I’ve never had a botched update (meanwhile, my Windows machine at work gets stuck in a boot loop every other update). When I’m doing tech support for people, it is the first OS I reach for. It’s also great for machines that you don’t use regularly (low maintenance). I personally have a lot of tech related hobbies from software development to astronomy to ham radio. I originally decided to switch from Fedora to Gentoo to run a kernel with the older iptables firewall instead of nftables (because Docker took a while to transition and Fedora likes to introduce the newest shit immediately, which is usually a good thing).
My shit is definitely broken in unique ways, but it’s functional in unique ways as well. Someday I will switch to Guix and have a machine which is broken deterministically.
I’ve been wanting to try guix/nix but it just seems like a lot of commitment. They aren’t supported in distrobox either which makes it harder to get a feel for the distro. And due to selinux differences I can’t use nix on its own on my fedora-derived os anyway. Very annoying.
Well, guess I’m done using Fedora. Shame too since I’ve enjoyed the experience so far.
Welcome to Cachy
Cachy, Omarchy, and maybe Suse are what I’m looking at. Will probably keep using Fedora for a bit until I start running into issue though since I’ve already got it configured.
Ngl omarchy kinda just seems like a pile of dodgy bash scripts
That’s exactly what it is. It’s run by a fascist too
Neat! I had no idea and just saw that some people said it was cool. Dropping that one from the roster I guess.
Yeah they gotta do it so red hat can too. Don’t mistake this for a dog tail wagging situation.
Well I know what I’m uninstalling this weekend.
Didn’t really expect any
lessmore from a distro I abandoned because of their racist and imperialistic policies.I saw this in the middle of installing Tumbleweed.
Fedora Atomic served we well for the past year, but my current system uses a mediatek wifi chip which needs a kernel patch to work properly with power state changes.
I only had it break once in that span of time due to a tweak that was 500% my own fault (typo in x11.conf when switching to sway).
Fuk… I use Fedora on pretty much all my machines.
