On 2026-01-01, Antonio Gagliarducci wrote: > But I have to say, about regarding the fact that you should not > contribute to Gentoo with the use AI, > > which developer in 2026 is not using AI to develop, do they still > developers that are not using AI to at least assist when writing their > code?
Responsible developers. That's a terse response, and, while exceptions do exist for technologies under "AI" for specific uses, it's the appropriate response where GenAI is concerned. If you want a slightly longer answer, check the following post I wrote quite recently in eternal-september.test: news://news.eternal-september.org/%[email protected]%3E (or e.g. http://newsgrouper.org/%[email protected]%3E ) > probably I went a little off topic but by reading this I had this > thought, Happy new year!! Yeah, happy holidays (in which I consider new years included), .* > Kind regards > > Antonio > > On 1/1/26 14:10, Alexis wrote: >> >> Jack Sparrow <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> This documentation was created with the help of Mistral AI using a >>> Gentoo agent. Since Gentoo’s official policy prohibits the use of AI >>> for public contributions, I couldn’t publish it on my Gentoo wiki user >>> page—otherwise, I would have. >> >> You haven't addressed Sergey's comment that the mirror specified for >> downloading the stage3 tarball, mirror.yer.az, isn't on the list of >> Gentoo mirrors: >> >> https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/mirrors/ >> >> This is particularly noticeable given that there's an OVH mirror in >> that list (albeit IPv4-only), gentoo.mirrors.ovh.net. >> >> On what basis have you specified this mirror? Or did Mistral specify >> it, and you assumed it was valid? i note that the Gentoo AI Policy >> says in part: >> >>> [LLMs] pose both the risk of lowering the quality of Gentoo >>> projects, and of requiring an unfair human effort from developers >>> and users to review contributions and detect the mistakes resulting >>> from the use of AI. >> -- https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy >> >> >> Alexis. >> > > -- Nuno Silva
