Will FreeBSD adopt a No-AI policy or such?

[DanielBowman]

These campaigns are often just

Blacksmiths against CNC machines.

Vibe coding is different matter. It is just pushing random buttons on CNC machine until something looking useful comes out.
If someone is willing to stake their name and reputation on it, his fault.

Btw you will definitely need AI to at least filter out the mountains of AI slop commit requests in open source projects. To do that AI needs to have very good baseline. So you are basically paying AI to train it for free.

 

[itstotallyme]

This means little.
What people want to fight against is "vibe coded" software or PRs.

This is not representative of all voices in this discussion.

There are good reasons to ban any LLM output from getting into the project, as did NetBSD, SDL, postmarketOS, many others.

A ban is also useful even if it doesn't 100% stop people. Can you name a ban that 100% stops people? Do you have a code of conduct, does that 100% stop people? It's still a useful signal.

Anyway, I understand people here have a different opinion. I just wanted to clarify that the discussion is more complex. Even though it seems like FreeBSD will apparently remain relatively pro-AI, at the end of the day (I'm saying this compared to the position I have, not as an absolute measure). I'm thankful for the clarity, if anything.

 

[LibreQuest]

This is not representative of all voices in this discussion.

There are good reasons to ban any LLM output from getting into the project, as did NetBSD, SDL, postmarketOS, many others.

A ban is also useful even if it doesn't 100% stop people. Can you name a ban that 100% stops people? Do you have a code of conduct, does that 100% stop people? It's still a useful signal.

Anyway, I understand people here have a different opinion. I just wanted to clarify that the discussion is more complex. Even though it seems like FreeBSD will apparently remain relatively pro-AI, at the end of the day (I'm saying this compared to the position I have, not as an absolute measure). I'm thankful for the clarity, if anything.

True. I don't understand the push for the use of proprietary systems in development of open source. Makes about as much sense to me as devs pushing the use of other proprietary software or systems in development. But in this case the software injects licensed code into projects. So not only are the systems themselves proprietary but their output is borrowed licensed code not to mention flawed and potentially malicious.

I like to change AI for iTunes. Makes the mantras more fun to read. "ITunes is just a tool" "you can't put itunes back in the bottle". Well, now I guess I have to use itunes it's the unavoidable future, don't wanna get left behind.