Fedora Linux now permits AI assisted contributions (code, docs and more), provided there is proper disclosure and transparency

https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/542

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/council-policy-proposal-policy-on-ai-assisted-contributions/165092/242

Bad decision Fedora but it was expected when IBM/RedHat is basically fund it. Maybe that is what corporate client of RHEL/IBM wants. IDK. There are many other distros that bans AI/LLM but many contributions of Fedora ends up in upstream projects like Kernel or DEs.

Issue #542: Council Policy Proposal: Policy on AI-Assisted Contributions - tickets - Pagure.io

Human code reviewers of Fedora project can only address questions of quality, fix security issues, or address missing functionality in AI code slop. It cannot answer questions about legality or licensing or even trace origin like:

> Where did that AI code come from?
> What licensing does AI created slop follows? Can you put it under GPL?
> So who actually wrote the code? Why person submitting putting their name on top of it?

The answer is: Nobody knows.

My next guess is we'll hear about the Fedora Project reducing its developers because now AI slop can contribute to and maintain the distro. It's about cutting funding from IBM/Red Hat.

I am not a lawyer, so maybe they consulted IP lawyers or, worse, decided to just follow Microsoft's, Google's, OpenAI's, and others' idea of ignoring all copyright and ethical issues around it.

Interesting times are ahead and how the community will react it.

@nixCraft honestly I've been running Fedora as daily drive all 2025 and it has been good so far, it makes me mad that I am also trying to learn more about Ansible, which is under RHEL/IBM umbrella as well...not to mention that I was into Golang not so long ago, AI is circling everything I like and it feels less and less enjoyable every day.
@melocopon true. I lost all interest in IT field because of AI. It is just not enjoyable anymore.