Mastodawn

With all the discussion around detecting when a code repo contains commits authored by an LLM, I think it is important to note commits like the following in Mozilla Firefox from 2 weeks ago:

"Bug 2011195 - When an agent commits, don't add itself as author"

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/71cc24b6a400dbd434e4df37087960d94b764791

I don't think it's a good thing that Mozilla seem to be explicitly encouraging unattributed LLM code in Firefox.

Bug 2011195 - When an agent commits, don't add itself as author r=ai4… · mozilla-firefox/firefox@71cc24b

…dev-reviewers,suhaib DONTBUILD Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D279515

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Brian Repko

@sarahjamielewis the “ai agent” cannot own the copyright on the code it produces so that might be one reason not to add anything to the author list - that said any code produced needs to be identified as you might have to check if it was copied from any training code (and the license requirements of that code). pyOpenSci and rOpenSci just wrote up new policies on this.

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Baŝto Feb 27

@brianrepko @sarahjamielewis The issue seems to be the opposite. They don’t want the AI to add itself to the author list when hey let an AI write the commit message and commit it. The wording isn’t 100% clear, but the made changes look like that.