NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code

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• omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ok but how is anyone meant to know if you generated your docstrings using copilot?

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  • Terces@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do they know that you wrote it yourself and didn’t just steal it?

    This is a rule to protect themselves. If there is ever a case around this, they can push the blame to the person that committed the code for breaking that rule.

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    • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is the only reason rules exist, not to stop people doing a thing but to be able to enforce or defect responsibility when they do.

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’ll use AI to detect it… obviously. ☺️

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  • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m saddened to use this phrase but it is literally virtue signalling. They have no way of knowing lmao

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    • best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s actually simple to detect: if the code sucks or is written by a bad programmer, and the docstrings are perfect, it’s AI. I’ve seen this more than once and it never fails.

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    • Venator@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It's also probably to make things slightly simpler from a legal perspective.

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  • SMillerNL@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are they long, super verbose and often incorrect?

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  • Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Magic, I guess ?

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• todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lots of stupid people asking “how would they know?”

  That’s not the fucking point. The point is that if they catch you they can block future commits and review your past commits for poor quality code. They’re setting a quality standard, and establishing consequences for violating it.

  If your AI generated code isn’t setting off red flags, you’re probably fine, but if something stupid slips through and the maintainers believe it to be the result of Generative AI, they will remove your code from the codebase and you from the project.

  It’s like laws against weapons. If you have a concealed gun on your person and enter a public school, chances are that nobody will know and you’ll get away with it over and over again. But if anyone ever notices, you’re going to jail, you’re getting permanently trespassed from school grounds, and you’re probably not going to be allowed to own guns for a while.

  And, it’s a message to everyone else quietly breaking the rules that they have something to lose if they don’t stop.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lots of stupid people asking “how would they know?”

    That’s not the fucking point.

    Okay, easy there, Chief. We were just trying to figure out how it worked. Sorry.

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was a fair question, but this is just going to turn out like universities failing or expelling people for supposed AI content in papers.

      They can’t prove it. They try to use AI tools to prove it, but those same tools will say a thesis paper from a decade ago are also AI generated.

      Short of an admission of guilt, it’s a witch hunt.

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• WalnutLum@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is a good move for international open source projects, with multiple lawsuits in multiple countries around the globe currently ongoing, the intellectual property nature of code made using AI isn’t really secure enough to open yourself up to the liability.

  I’ve done the same internally at our company. You’re free to use whatever tool you want but if the tool you use spits out copyrighted code, and the law eventually has decided that model users instead of model trainers are liable for model output, then that’s on you buddy.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yup. We don’t allow AI tools on our codebase, but I allow it for interviews. I honestly haven’t been impressed by it at all, it just encourages not understanding the code.

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does this mean you have indicated to your employees and/or contractors that you intend to hold them legally liable in the case someone launches litigation against you?

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• elias_griffin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So proud of you NetBSD, this is why I sponsor you, slam dunk for the future. I’m working on a NetBSD hardening script and Rice as we speak, great OS with some fantastically valuable niche applications and I think, a new broad approach I’m cooking up, a University Edition. I did hardening for all the other BSD, I saved the best for last!

  If you would like to vote on whether, or by what year, AI will be in the Linux Kernel on Infosec.space:

  infosec.space/@wravoc/112441828127082611

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for your efforts Elias!

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• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was hoping they ban it because it’s shit, but banning it for copyright reasons is fine too.

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• bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can understand why a project might want to do this until the law is fully implemented and testing in court, but I can tell most of the people in this thread haven’t actually figured out how to effectively use LLMs productively. They’re not about to replace software engineers, but as a software engineer, tools like GitHub copilot and ChatGPT are excellent at speeding up a workflow. ChatGPT for example is an excellent search engine that can give you a quick understanding of a topic. It’ll generate small amounts of code more quickly than I could write it by hand. Of course I’m still going to review that code to ensure it is to the same quality that hand written code would be, but overall this is still a much faster problem.

  The luddites who hate on LLMs would have complained about the first compilers too, because they could write marginally faster assembly by hand.

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same for intellisense, IDEs, Debuggers, linters, static analyzers, dynamic languages, garbage collection, NoSQL databases…

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  • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why would we use a computer to the work I could do myself?

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• diffusive@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I never felt so close to try NetBSD as after reading this 😃

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We need to see more of this

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• hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hell yeah! Get that shit… OUTTA HERE!!!

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