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1 month agoIn addition to the other comments, AI has enabled drive-by contributors that do not disclose their AI use, and it either increases the maintenance burden or leads to non-trivial bugs when such code is merged without a thorough review.
I am not as biased against AI as others, so my view on this is that this is more of a social / cultural issue than any problem inherent to LLMs.
Another potential problem for FOSS is legal liability regarding licensing. I am not well versed on this so I’ll leave the subject to those who can further expand on it
The curl project has been dealing with this for a while, and it seems like their main problem is the increasing volume of low quality submissions.
They wrote something very similar to your suggestion: https://curl.se/dev/contribute.html#on-ai-use-in-curl