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

@nixCraft It's really gross that they would decide to allow it, but I think they're putting the best possible restrictions on it by requiring the submitter to understand the generated code, but at that point why allow it? Why not just write good code yourself instead of rolling dice for it?

If this ends up causing problems (it will), does anyone have suggestions for what distro I should migrate my server to? Not Ubuntu or Arch, systemd preferred. I know Debian is good, but I don't like the release cycle; it's still my first choice despite that.

@jackemled @nixCraft im more worried about the ethical implications of allowing genAI explicitly, thus of genAI (ecological worries, digital labour, legal risks etc), i would think they *probably* have good quality assurance. but as you say, why bother then as most genAI contributions are of poor quality

if youre looking for alternatives to Fedora, and assuming you would prefer Fedora over other options due to, for example, quality and release cadence... then i would think of FreeBSD and Gentoo (even if im aware of the onboarding of the latter, it seems to be very good in regards to the control you have). i imagine declarative options like NixOS and Guix SD can also be considered, but Guix seemingly has quite old packages. personally im on Debian for most systems and likely going full Debian to replace Fedora, but you surely know enough to have gauged why it wasnt good for you

openSUSE could also be an option but i very much doubt it being a good alternative for our concerns, since you go from one distro whose corporate influence likely played in AI adoption towards another distro where... the corporate influence could lead into AI adoption just as easily

@arni @nixCraft I'll have to look at FreeBSD. NixOS would be perfect if the project management wasn't full of anti LGBT people.
@jackemled ah! well thats a thing i didnt know about 😭, thank you for the very fun fact
i thought of it some more after the fact and while its not systemd, Void Linux is very nice and could be worth checking out