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.. _generative_ai:

Use of Generative AI
====================

Generative AI tools are evolving rapidly and can be helpful. As with any tool,
the resulting contribution is the responsibility of the contributor. We
expect dedicated and authentic engagement in our community. In particular when
using AI, carefully consider what and how to communicate, question results,
think things through thoroughly and make well-informed decisions.

Some examples of acceptable and unacceptable AI uses are:

.. grid:: 1 1 2 2

.. grid-item::

:octicon:`check;1em;sd-text-success` **Acceptable uses**

- Gaining understanding of the existing code
- Getting solution ideas
- Translating or proof-reading your comments or PR descriptions. Please keep
the wording as close as possible to your original wording.

.. grid-item::

:octicon:`x;1em;sd-text-danger` **Unacceptable uses**

- External AI tooling (e.g. bots, agents) directly interacting with the project;
including creating issues, PRs or commenting on GitHub or Discourse.
- Solving topics that you wouldn't be able to solve yourself without AI
- Using AI output without ensuring that you fully understand the output or
without verifying that it is the correct approach.

Restrictions on Generative AI Usage
===================================

We expect authentic engagement in our community.

- Do not post output from Large Language Models or similar generative AI as
comments on GitHub or our discourse server, as such comments tend to be
formulaic and low content.
- If you use generative AI tools as an aid in developing code or documentation
changes, ensure that you fully understand the proposed changes and can
explain why they are the correct approach.
- If you use AI for translation or grammar correction, please keep the wording as close
as possible to the original wording. It is much easier to come to a mutual
understanding when we are working off a direct translation of your words/thoughts
rather than a text an LLM may have embellished with possibly spurious information.

Make sure you have added value based on your personal competency to your
contributions. Just taking some input, feeding it to an AI and posting the
result is not of value to the project. To preserve precious core developer
capacity, we reserve the right to rigorously reject seemingly AI generated
low-value contributions.

In particular, it is also strictly forbidden to post AI generated
content to issues or PRs via automated tooling such as bots or agents. We
may ban such users and/or report them to GitHub.
To ensure project health and preserve limited core developer capacity, we will flag
and reject low-value contributions that we believe are AI generated. We may ban
and/or report users to GitHub if they harm the project or its community through
irresponsible use of AI.

.. _new_contributors:

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