Merge branch 'cc/doc-submitting-patches-with-ai' into jch

AI guidelines.

Perhaps we should adopt what QEMU uses for simplicity?
cf. <aOBMHqLxNd86vgjH@fruit.crustytoothpaste.net>

* cc/doc-submitting-patches-with-ai:
  SubmittingPatches: add section about AI
Junio C Hamano 2025-10-06 14:31:22 -07:00
commit b4f5e00cfa
1 changed files with 28 additions and 0 deletions

View File

@ -446,6 +446,34 @@ highlighted above.
Only capitalize the very first letter of the trailer, i.e. favor
"Signed-off-by" over "Signed-Off-By" and "Acked-by:" over "Acked-By".

[[ai]]
=== Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The Developer's Certificate of Origin requires contributors to certify
that they know the origin of their contributions to the project and
that they have the right to submit it under the project's license.
It's not yet clear that this can be legally satisfied when submitting
significant amount of content that has been generated by AI tools.

Another issue with AI generated content is that AIs still often
hallucinate or just produce bad code, commit messages, documentation
or output, even when you point out their mistakes.

To avoid these issues, we will reject anything that looks AI
generated, that sounds overly formal or bloated, that looks like AI
slop, that looks good on the surface but makes no sense, or that
senders dont understand or cannot explain.

We strongly recommend using AI tools carefully and responsibly.

Contributors would often benefit more from AI by using it to guide and
help them step by step towards producing a solution by themselves
rather than by asking for a full solution that they would then mostly
copy-paste. They can also use AI to help with debugging, or with
checking for obvious mistakes, things that can be improved, things
that dont match our style, guidelines or our feedback, before sending
it to us.

[[git-tools]]
=== Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits.