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

[Alexander Strasser]

On 2025-07-01 16:50 +0530, Gyan Doshi wrote:
> 
> On 2025-07-01 04:28 pm, Alexander Strasser via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> 
> > Thus I want this thread to start a discussion, that eventually leads
> > to a policy about submitting and integrating "AI" generated content.
>
> In practice. unless a patch(set) is explicitly marked or has telltale signs
> of being AI-generated,the project can't stop such AI code getting in.
> At best, we can require disclosure and for the human submitter to assume
> responsibility.

That's true. It's impossible to completely enforce adherence to a
policy that bans "AI" generated code.

I guess it would still be worthwhile to just do what you said.

From what I have looked at in the other projects so far (musl,
gentoo, llvm), they acknowledge too that they cannot enforce it.

In a way it's nothing new and actually since forever we would
not want to accept contributions of dubious or license-incompatible
origins.

Just the current times seem to warrant spelling this out, I fear.
So maybe just generically writing about it and explicitly mentioning
"AI" would be the better way to achieve the goal.

Thanks for commenting!


Best regards,
  Alexander