@WeirdWriter I think the use of AI has already entrenched itself. And it is useful with small problems or hunting down obscure difficulties.

The consequences of using it and the frightening speed that folks accept those long term destructive aspects (water, power, the folks who live near AI data centers, the fact it all costs money that I don't want to spend) is just a mirror (at least for me) of Amazon and Walmart taking over small businesses. In my dad's words, "that's a you problem" which is horrible (I hated that answer of his).

As for banning it, I've seen how much work one of my developers goes to obscure his AI usage from me, even though the company encourages using AI, because he knows that I'm anti AI and I'm picky about code, and that makes it exhausting. Since Linux developers have a higher chance of having that hacker mentality, flat out banning it is just a challenge to hide it better.

Kind of like how there are clearly humans behind the AI only social network. They are only cosplaying as AI because it's a challenge.

I wish I had a better answer.

The fun ones, like checking in a skills.md file that insists that every comment have emoji are cute but someone is going to notice that no PR gets merged with emoji and tell their bot to remove them.

I think the header is trying to find a balance between accountability (much like the DCO) and not wasting more time and energy hiding it.

I also think Jellyfin's AI policy is trying to find that balance and is fairly well written in that regard.