Fedor Indutny4d ago

I'm so appreciative of @bengl right now. Their PR that proposes adding policy on LLM-generated contributions is receiving lots of feedback from other project maintainers and has helped me uncover additional concerns about LLM: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62447

Like, I haven't thought until yesterday evening that LLM written code is completely antithetical to MIT-license under which Node.js is written. LLMs are designed to destroy attribution, but MIT license is built on top of it.

doc: add policy on LLM-generated contributions by bengl · Pull Request #62447 · nodejs/node

Add doc/contributing/ai-contributions.md banning LLM-generated content from commits. Scoped to committed content only, excluding discussion, vendored deps, and accessibility tools. Enforcement uses...

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Show threadKaterina Marchán4d ago

@indutny @bengl dang, nodejs folks trying to do the right thing here.

I "love" that the first thing LLM boosters go to is how it's "unenforceable", as if that was ever a concern when it came to whether people submitting PRs actually owned the rights to the code they submitted. I don't recall some massive discussion about "true authorship" besides "pinky swear".

It just reeks of LLM boosters wanting really bad to just be deceitful motherfuckers.

Show threadFedor Indutny
@zkat @bengl I disagree with the “unenforceable” argument too, but I deeply respect contributors posting this comment. They are part of the driving force behind Node.js and I don't think they have ill intentions even though we are not in agreement on LLM use.
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Show threadKaterina Marchán4d ago
@indutny @bengl it's just a pattern I've seen consistently come up and it feels disingenuous precisely because it's not reflected in other places where it may be relevant. If you already can't trust the people you're working with, you've got bigger problems, you know?
Show threadFedor Indutny4d ago

@zkat @bengl absolutely!

“Cat's out of bag”, “Everyone uses it", “It will alienate new contributors" are all very silly arguments for LLM that would make much less sense if we'd try to translate them to any other real world scenario.

It is really hard to fight the feeling of empowerment that LLM gives to the users, and admit that this technology is not only deeply unethical, but also addictive.

Show threadF4GRX Sébastien3d ago
@indutny @zkat @bengl it was built to be addictive