Open Source Project Considers Policy on LLM-Generated Contributions and Bug Reports
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Summary
The article discusses the need for an open-source project (likely runc) to establish a policy on LLM-generated contributions, including pull requests and bug reports. The author expresses a personal opinion against accepting any LLM-generated content, suggesting that LLM-generated issues should be closed as spam, but acknowledges this may not be the consensus among maintainers. The proposal is to document the policy in CONTRIBUTING.md and consider code and issues separately.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledWe've seen a slight uptick in pull-requests and bug reports which appear to be LLM-generated, so it's probably about time to come to a decision on what we should and should not accept and document this somewhere (presumably in CONTRIBUTING.md).
My personal opinion is we shouldn't accept anything LLM-generated, but this is probably not the common position of most @opencontainers/runc-maintainers, so we should probably consider LLM-generated code and issues separately.
IMHO, we should close all LLM-generated issues as spam, because even if they are describing real issues the entire issue descrip
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