[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Introducing policies regarding "AI" contributions

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Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2025, 12:58:23 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Alexander Strasser via ffmpeg-devel:
> Hi all,
> 
> I do not like the branding of the LLMs as AI, thus I will for now
> continue to call it "AI" in quotes. I'm open for better terms.
> 
> It was just yesterday brought up on IRC in #ffmpeg-devel that there
> was at least one, marked attempt to include "AI" generated code[1].
> 
> At least I would say that this particular patch series was rejected,
> but there were was no explicit discussion and clear statement about
> "AI" generated content; especially code.
> 
> Thus I want this thread to start a discussion, that eventually leads
> to a policy about submitting and integrating "AI" generated content.
> 
> Leaving all ethical issues aside for a moment I still see 2 very big
> problems with AI generated code:
> 
> * looks generally plausible but is often subtly wrong
>     * leading to more work, regressions and costs
>         * which often lands on a different group of people (other
>           projects, reviewers, bug finders, bug fixers, etc.)
>         * which are sometimes delayed for quite some time increasing
>           the costs of fixing them
> * license/copyright violations
>     * this might be sometimes a non-issue with small changes
>     * but especially for complete components the risk seems high
> 
> There is a lot more to the topic and I probably forgot to bring up
> many more important aspects and details. Please feel free to bring
> more things up in the discussion!
> 
> There was a preparation in the musl project to put up a policy[2],
> it has not yet been finalized and realized as far as I understand.

Just to link it here. Remembers me on the Gentoo Linux discussion:
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/9007c921a8a57655ecb2027eb4be4bff02673af4.camel@zougloub.eu/T/#t
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy


Best,
Gerion


> 
> It also brings up the point, that it is not really related to
> recent "AI" tech, but more to the origin of work and its handling.
> Unfortunately "AI" made problems with this a lot more common.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
>   Alexander
> 
> 1. https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2025-April/342146.html
> 2. https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2024/10/19/3
> 

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