Merge pull request #496 from vexorian/vexorian-patch-1

Pull Request Template

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ We agree to restrict the following behaviors in our community. Instances, threat
 3. **Promotional materials**. Sharing marketing or other commercial content in a way that is outside the norms of the community.
 4. **Irresponsible communication.** Failing to responsibly present content which includes, links or describes any other restricted behaviors.
 
+## 'AI' policy
+
+There are ways in which a LLM-based tool can be helpful such as when searching the web or for learning. More so, tools like github and google themselves are being modified to railroad users into using LLM-based tools. It'd be really impractical and neigh-impossible to ban 'AI' altogether from being used during the development of a contribution and that's not really the purpose of this policy.
+
+HOWEVER, from a legal standpoint, it is too difficult to know the origin of LLM-generated code so there are risks of it infringing on copyright. And from a pragmatic stand point, we want to be able to trust the quality of the code. That is to say, we do not want contributions where the bulk of the code was AI-generated or or where the contributors themselves do not understand the code being pushed. This is also in relation to items 4 and 5 of the encouraged behaviors. We want contributors that can vouch for the code they contribute and can receive and act on constructive feedback to it.
+
+Note that this is only a policy affecting Pull Requests to this project. This project is released under a permissive FOSS licence, so there's nothing really that can stop forks from having a different policy on this and any individual is allowed to create such a fork should they want to.
 
 ## Reporting an Issue
 
@@ -52,7 +59,7 @@ reported by contacting the project team at vexorian@gmail.com
 ## Attribution
 
 This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant][homepage], version 3.0,
-available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct.html
+available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct.html . The AI policy is a modification.
 
 [homepage]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org