Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-29 Thread Alexander Semke
On 16/05/25 02:22, Justin Zobel wrote: [...] Using a mobile phone cannot be compared to the power used by data centres to train AI in the slightest. Just straight off the top of my head, your phone and computer automatically go to sleep by default. Servers do not. It's also a matter of h

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-29 Thread Alexander Semke
On 26/05/25 20:52, Christoph Cullmann wrote: Hi, https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/merge_requests/698 would still benefit from some input on how to proceed in this very concrete case. I see it pragmatically - it just another "tool" that helps you to generate/auto-comp

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-26 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El dilluns, 26 de maig del 2025, a les 20:52:26 (Hora d’estiu d’Europa central), Christoph Cullmann va escriure: > Hi, > > https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/merge_requests/698 > > would still benefit from some input on how to proceed in this very concrete > case. Google cl

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-26 Thread Christoph Cullmann
Hi, https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/merge_requests/698 would still benefit from some input on how to proceed in this very concrete case. Greetings Christoph On Sunday, May 18th, 2025 at 16:56, Christoph Cullmann wrote: > Hi, > > > On Sunday, May 18th, 2025 at 09

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-21 Thread Wang Gary
Sorry for swooping in this conversation as a regular contributor. >> From my understanding (what others have told me), AI generally does not >> produce good quality code though. So how is that a benefit to society? > > Well, in that case, those “others” are using them wrong or are just spreading

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-19 Thread Justin Zobel
On 19/05/2025 19:15, Ilya Bizyaev wrote: On Monday, May 19th, 2025 at 02:34, Justin Zobel wrote: On 18/05/2025 16:41, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: On Sun, 18 May 2025, 08:59 Justin Zobel, wrote: If the contributor cannot tell you the license(s) of the code that was used to generate t

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-19 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Montag, 19. Mai 2025 07:48:42 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Justin Zobel wrote: > On 19/05/2025 15:01, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: > > Another example is I had to rewrite some project from one language to > > another at work. This is tedious task, so I similarly used AI to > > create a scratch,

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-19 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, May 19, 2025 02:51:37 AM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Ingo's suggestions to train a model with KDE code might help. But of > course to train a model will need a huge lot of resources according to > what I know. From the peanut gallery: I know very little about training an AI, but, from

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-19 Thread Jakob Petsovits
On Mon, May 19, 2025, at 11:45, Ilya Bizyaev wrote: > If you really care about the licensing aspect, focus on it instead of > diverting this thread into other topics with statements like this one. I strongly agree with this statement. "AI" as a term is a nothing-burger, it needs to be broken dow

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-19 Thread Ilya Bizyaev
On Monday, May 19th, 2025 at 02:34, Justin Zobel wrote: > On 18/05/2025 16:41, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > > > On Sun, 18 May 2025, 08:59 Justin Zobel, wrote: > > > > > If the contributor cannot tell you the license(s) of the code that was > > > used to generate the code, then it's lite

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-19 Thread Jin Liu
Akseli Lahtinen 于2025年5月19日周一 16:14写道: > My original point is to try to get rid of the low-hanging fruit, as in > people who spam bug reports with obviously "AI" generated things. I'm basically with you. That's why I began my first reply with "I assume this doesn't include...", i.e. just a casual

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-19 Thread Justin Zobel
On 19/05/2025 15:28, Jin Liu wrote: Justin Zobel 于2025年5月19日周一 13:52写道: I understand that it makes everything easier. That doesn't matter in the slightest when you cannot verify the original license of the code allows you to use said code or that the license is compatible with KDE. I don't th

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-19 Thread Akseli Lahtinen
On Monday 19 May 2025 10:26:19 Eastern European Summer Time Jin Liu wrote: > Martin Steigerwald 于2025年5月19日周一 14:56写道: > > > Everyone: I suggest to assume good intentions. > > My suggestion is to avoid making assessments on "people", and focus on > code or legal or other aspects. > > - Jin Liu

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-19 Thread Jin Liu
Martin Steigerwald 于2025年5月19日周一 14:56写道: > Everyone: I suggest to assume good intentions. My suggestion is to avoid making assessments on "people", and focus on code or legal or other aspects. - Jin Liu

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-19 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Sunday, 18 May 2025 09:11:35 Central European Summer Time Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2025, 08:59 Justin Zobel, wrote: > > If the contributor cannot tell you the license(s) of the code that was > > used to generate the code, then it's literally gambling that this code > > wasn'

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi. Jin Liu - 19.05.25, 07:58:50 CEST: > > It's clear a lot of people don't care about theft or the environment > > and are happy to use AI without thinking about the true impact. > > Insult taken. Is that KDE's official stance that because I use AI in > coding, so "I don't care about theft or the

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Konstantin Kharlamov
On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 15:18 +0930, Justin Zobel wrote: > > > > > On 19/05/2025 15:01, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 14:53 +0930, Justin Zobel wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 19/05/2025 14:35, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi. Justin Zobel - 19.05.25, 07:52:05 CEST: > I understand that it makes everything easier. That doesn't matter in the > slightest when you cannot verify the original license of the code > allows you to use said code or that the license is compatible with KDE. > > What this all boils down to, is

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Jin Liu
Justin Zobel 于2025年5月19日周一 13:52写道: > I understand that it makes everything easier. That doesn't matter in the > slightest when you cannot verify the original license of the code allows you > to use said code or that the license is compatible with KDE. I don't think a few (<10) lines of code ar

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Justin Zobel
On 19/05/2025 15:10, Jin Liu wrote: Justin Zobel 于2025年5月19日周一 08:34写道: From my understanding (what others have told me), AI generally does not produce good quality code though. So how is that a benefit to society? From my personal experience (what I, not others, have personally used Github

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Justin Zobel
On 19/05/2025 15:01, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 14:53 +0930, Justin Zobel wrote: On 19/05/2025 14:35, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 10:03 +0930, Justin Zobel wrote: On 18/05/2025 16:41, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: On Sun, 18 May 2025, 08:59 Justi

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Jin Liu
Justin Zobel 于2025年5月19日周一 08:34写道: > From my understanding (what others have told me), AI generally does not > produce good quality code though. So how is that a benefit to society? >From my personal experience (what I, not others, have personally used Github Copilot for months), AI makes codin

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Konstantin Kharlamov
On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 14:53 +0930, Justin Zobel wrote: > > On 19/05/2025 14:35, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 10:03 +0930, Justin Zobel wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 18/05/2025 16:41, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Justin Zobel
On 19/05/2025 14:35, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 10:03 +0930, Justin Zobel wrote: On 18/05/2025 16:41, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: On Sun, 18 May 2025, 08:59 Justin Zobel, wrote: If the contributor cannot tell you the license(s) of the code that was used to generate the

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Konstantin Kharlamov
On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 10:03 +0930, Justin Zobel wrote: > > On 18/05/2025 16:41, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 18 May 2025, 08:59 Justin Zobel, wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > If the contributor cannot tell you the license(s) of the code > > > that was used

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Justin Zobel
On 19/05/2025 05:02, Ingo Klöcker wrote: On Sonntag, 18. Mai 2025 16:52:00 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Christoph Cullmann wrote: On Sunday, May 18th, 2025 at 09:12, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: On Sun, 18 May 2025, 08:59 Justin Zobel, wrote: If the contributor cannot tell you the license(s) o

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Justin Zobel
On 18/05/2025 16:41, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: On Sun, 18 May 2025, 08:59 Justin Zobel, wrote: If the contributor cannot tell you the license(s) of the code that was used to generate the code, then it's literally gambling that this code wasn't taken from another project by Gemini a

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Christoph Cullmann
Hi, > > > On Sonntag, 18. Mai 2025 16:52:00 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Christoph > Cullmann wrote: > > > On Sunday, May 18th, 2025 at 09:12, Albert Vaca Cintora > > albertv...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Sun, 18 May 2025, 08:59 Justin Zobel, jus...@1707.io wrote: > > > > > > > If the

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Sonntag, 18. Mai 2025 16:52:00 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Christoph Cullmann wrote: > On Sunday, May 18th, 2025 at 09:12, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > > On Sun, 18 May 2025, 08:59 Justin Zobel, wrote: > > > If the contributor cannot tell you the license(s) of the code that was > > > used t

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Christoph Cullmann
Hi, On Sunday, May 18th, 2025 at 09:00, Justin Zobel wrote: > On 17/05/2025 01:40, Christoph Cullmann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > just as a concrete example: what to do with > > > > https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/merge_requests/698 > > > > That is no AI spam but so

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Christoph Cullmann
Hi, On Sunday, May 18th, 2025 at 09:12, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2025, 08:59 Justin Zobel, wrote: > > > If the contributor cannot tell you the license(s) of the code that was used > > to generate the code, then it's literally gambling that this code wasn't > > taken fro

Re: [SPAM] Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Juraj Oravec
Hello, I don't know if it was mentioned, but there are already rules for this. "Think Twice before Committing" and "Don't commit code you don't understand" https://community.kde.org/Policies/Commit_Policy Best regards, Juraj signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Jin Liu
Justin Zobel 于2025年5月18日周日 15:03写道: > I would even be for adding a checkbox in the Merge Request template requiring > users to declare that no AI was used in this contribution. The same can go in > the Bugzilla tickets. > > Justin Well, I hereby declare that AI (Github Copilot specifically) was

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Albert Vaca Cintora
On Sun, 18 May 2025, 08:59 Justin Zobel, wrote: > If the contributor cannot tell you the license(s) of the code that was > used to generate the code, then it's literally gambling that this code > wasn't taken from another project by Gemini and used without their > permission or used in a way that

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-18 Thread Justin Zobel
On 17/05/2025 02:20, Nate Graham wrote: you skillfully adapted or re-wrote its output using your human brain to fit the context, then the result was fine and no policy could prevent this, so that part is sort of moot IMO. It still possibly contains code that is against KDE's licenses. And if

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-17 Thread Justin Zobel
On 17/05/2025 01:40, Christoph Cullmann wrote: Hi, just as a concrete example: what to do with https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/merge_requests/698 That is no AI spam but something that doesn't look broken and the submitter did do manual work. Can I now accept that just

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-17 Thread Jin Liu
Nate Graham 于2025年5月17日周六 00:50写道: > This is a complex topic that could go on for ages. If this is a complex (social / political) topic, (and from the length of this discussion, it obviously is), then "not taking a (firm / aggressive) stance" is just what I feel KDE might do in contrast to some "

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-16 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Freitag, 16. Mai 2025 18:10:11 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Christoph Cullmann wrote: > Hi, > > just as a concrete example: what to do with > > https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/merge_requests/698 > > That is no AI spam but something that doesn't look broken and the sub

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-16 Thread Akseli Lahtinen
On Friday 16 May 2025 19:50:14 Eastern European Summer Time Nate Graham wrote: > This is a complex topic that could go on for ages. > > For me, if I can tell you used AI for something, it's because the result > wasn't good, and had that "obviously AI" flavor to it. You wasted both > of our time an

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-16 Thread Nate Graham
This is a complex topic that could go on for ages. For me, if I can tell you used AI for something, it's because the result wasn't good, and had that "obviously AI" flavor to it. You wasted both of our time and some of the planet's resources. For this reason, we already have written guidance

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-16 Thread Christoph Cullmann
Hi, just as a concrete example: what to do with https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/merge_requests/698 That is no AI spam but something that doesn't look broken and the submitter did do manual work. Can I now accept that just as MIT? Greetings Christoph signature.asc Desc

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi. Justin Zobel - 16.05.25, 02:22:54 CEST: > The way I see it, AI has three main problems, legal, ethical and > environmental. I just want to throw in an impression I had when reading through posts of this discussion – more as a bystander: It seemingly went pro and contra in kind of a loop. Ei

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-16 Thread Justin Zobel
On 16/05/2025 19:42, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: On Fri, 2025-05-16 at 09:52 +0930, Justin Zobel wrote:  On 16/05/2025 00:48, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: On Fri, 2025-05-16 at 00:29 +0930, Justin Zobel wrote:  Ethical issues aside, AI has other impacts as well, most notably environmental via

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-16 Thread Konstantin Kharlamov
On Fri, 2025-05-16 at 09:52 +0930, Justin Zobel wrote: >  On 16/05/2025 00:48, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: > > On Fri, 2025-05-16 at 00:29 +0930, Justin Zobel wrote: > > >  Ethical issues aside, AI has other impacts as well, most notably > > > environmental via the huge amounts of energy required t

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-15 Thread Justin Zobel
On 16/05/2025 00:48, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: On Fri, 2025-05-16 at 00:29 +0930, Justin Zobel wrote: On 15/05/2025 23:57, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: On Thu, 2025-05-15 at 16:09 +0200, Felix Ernst wrote: Late reply, but I also wanted to mention that I am 100% in support of

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-15 Thread Benson Muite
On Thu, May 15, 2025, at 9:28 PM, Alexander Potashev wrote: > Hi Benson, (everyone,) > >> Code contributions made using AI trained on unknown data is problematic. > > Is this purely a legal/intellectual property concern? > This is a concern. People have pointed out others. > > If we can gene

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-15 Thread Alexander Potashev
Hi Benson, (everyone,) > Code contributions made using AI trained on unknown data is problematic. Is this purely a legal/intellectual property concern? If we can generalize this concern as "a contributor submits code incompatible with the project's license, thus breaching the license" , n

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-15 Thread Wodsfort
I think KDE developers shouldn`t use AI чт, 15 мая 2025 г. в 17:39, Benson Muite : > > Code contributions made using AI trained on unknown data is problematic. > KDE does also create a lot of data that could be used to improve KDE. It > may be good to see if AI or ML tools could use some of this

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-15 Thread Konstantin Kharlamov
On Fri, 2025-05-16 at 00:29 +0930, Justin Zobel wrote: >   > On 15/05/2025 23:57, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: >   >   > >   > > On Thu, 2025-05-15 at 16:09 +0200, Felix Ernst wrote: > >   > > >   > > > > > > > > > Late reply, but I also wanted to mention that I am 100% in > > > support of > > > a

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-15 Thread Mark Penner
May 15, 2025 09:10:39 Felix Ernst : > I wouldn't even mind if we went one step further and actively promoted e.g. > Plasma as "free of AI". This does not need to be fully true, but this would > be more of an activism and marketing angle I would like to see. There is a > good chance though that

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-15 Thread Justin Zobel
On 15/05/2025 23:57, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: On Thu, 2025-05-15 at 16:09 +0200, Felix Ernst wrote: Late reply, but I also wanted to mention that I am 100% in support of any anit-AI messaging and policies we might choose. The wording as linked by Akseli in their first post seems like a goo

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-15 Thread Benson Muite
Code contributions made using AI trained on unknown data is problematic. KDE does also create a lot of data that could be used to improve KDE. It may be good to see if AI or ML tools could use some of this data to improve KDE in an ethical manner. On Thu, May 15, 2025, at 5:09 PM, Felix Erns

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-15 Thread Konstantin Kharlamov
On Thu, 2025-05-15 at 16:09 +0200, Felix Ernst wrote: > > > > Late reply, but I also wanted to mention that I am 100% in support of > any anit-AI messaging and policies we might choose. > > The wording as linked by Akseli in their first post seems like a good > starting point in that regard: >

Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

2025-05-15 Thread Felix Ernst
Late reply, but I also wanted to mention that I am 100% in support of any anit-AI messaging and policies we might choose. The wording as linked by Akseli in their first post seems like a good starting point in that regard: >Other projects have already done something similar, see for example