[LEGAL-631] Updating contributor guidance around AI generated code

• Type: Question
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Shane Curcuru
• Created: 09/Feb/23 22:39
• Updated: 06/Mar/23 22:02
• Resolved: 03/Mar/23 12:32

Description

Should we update our contributor guidance documents (any of them) to discourage or prohibit contributions that are merely AI-tooling generated code blocks?

This is going to become a common question pretty soon, and having at least an explicit legal FAQ entry that we can point to when people ask will save us a lot of time (and mailing list threads) in the future.

Even if our license + ICLA technically protects us (since we assume committers are following all the rules), this may quickly become a social issue, where new contributors are wondering how or when they can use AI tooling to create code they might submit here.

Issue Links

• is related to: LEGAL-491 Contributions from bots (Can robots sign CLAs?)