Banning LLM-generated or assisted contributions to the GNU C Library

[Andreas K. Huettel]

> The Gentoo policy says:
> 
> | It is expressly forbidden to contribute to Gentoo any content that
> | has been created with the assistance of Natural Language Processing
> | artificial intelligence tools.
> 
> Why doesn't this ban the use of (moderately advanced) screen readers
> for Gentoo development?  

As someone who was present at the initital discussion, I can assure that
banning accessibility helps was not the intention.

> Or machine translation, even if used only for
> understanding project documentation and source code comments?

I'm personally using LLM-based translation utilities occasionally for 
Physics-related work. I only dare do that for languages where my own
knowlegde is good enough so I can actually check the result. And even the
best systems I've used so far have already changed the meaning of
sentences in places where precision was required, or have run into
difficulties with technical terms.

I have no doubts that further improvements are possible, and I'm very
much impressed by what has been achieved so far. 

When generating a bare-chested image of Gavin Newsom in cowboy attire, 
carrying a statue of liberty with the face of Taylor Swift in his arms, 
noone cares if he's got the wrong eye color.

If our documentation gets a subtle point wrong, or if someone bases their
code on a bad translation, or suddently a pointer is referenced that
shouldn't, that is a problem however.



-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
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