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Debian votes to let contributors code with AI
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The Debian community has voted to allow members to use generative AI when creating their contributions, with the caveat that developers remain responsible for code quality.
Key facts
- As their FOSS aficionado Liam Proven wrote in his report on the vote, the Gentoo Linux team has banned use of AI, while NetBSD and OpenBSD don’t want any clanker-written code contributions
- Linus Torvalds, arguably the most influential figure in the FOSS community, welcomes AI-generated contributions
- In July he declared “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects”, and recently proved it by using AI to squash a tricky bug
- When the tallying was done, proposal E, “Responsible Use of Generative AI”, won the day
Summary
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