[QGIS-Developer] "Human In The Loop" Policy For AI/Tool-Assisted Contributions

[Greg Troxel]

I would suggest a much stronger policy:

  no LLM-generated code or discussion may be submitted to any QGIS forum


The idea that LLM-generated code has been "reviewed" intends to be that
it is of high enough quality that it is reasonable for *humans* to spend
time reviewing it.  But I don't believe that asking that it be reviewed
will achieve that in practice.

I've already had the experience (in a different project) of seeing a
posted PR(ish, patch on list), taking the time to comment, and getting
LLM-generated (vacuous) replies to my comments.

Besides the ethical problems with asking humans to review, improve,
judge or in any other way pay attention to LLM output, there's the
problem of copyright.  While machine-generated text isn't copyrightable
as is, LLM output is a derived work of stolen human work, scraped
and used without permission, often as DDOS.

On the basis of each reason, I believe the policy about LLM should just
be "no".