This is not a list of all the things they are banning AI from.
This is a list of every reasonable use of LLMs they can think of in their environment.
So if anyone thinks “hmm, I know they don’t like LLM contributions but I’m just going to use it once for X”. The immediate next thought should be “They don’t even allow LLMs to spell check, therefore my single use of LLM for X will not be welcome, I will not do it”.
Basically none of this is enforceable. The rules are there so if someone is caught doing something, it can be pointed out that that something is written in the rules. And also to give a general sense of what is tolerated or not in a community.
This reminds me of a traffic law in my country:
It is illegal to go all the way around a roundabout 3 times in a row. There is not a police officer ok every roundabout, or a camera counting how many times you go around it. But if a kid goes off and do stupid shit at 2AM with a loud AF car, one of the things one might do is do many loops on a roundabout. Therefore they can’t just say “I’m not doing anything illegal, I’m just using the public roads with my car and a valid driver’s license”. Since one of the things they did was doing more than 3 rounds in a roundabout.
Reading between the lines they wrote this because of seeing “I hear you, and you are right to be suspicious — but I only use AI for spell checking, nothing more” one time too many.
Good luck enforcing no LLM spell check
This is not a list of all the things they are banning AI from.
This is a list of every reasonable use of LLMs they can think of in their environment.
So if anyone thinks “hmm, I know they don’t like LLM contributions but I’m just going to use it once for X”. The immediate next thought should be “They don’t even allow LLMs to spell check, therefore my single use of LLM for X will not be welcome, I will not do it”.
Basically none of this is enforceable. The rules are there so if someone is caught doing something, it can be pointed out that that something is written in the rules. And also to give a general sense of what is tolerated or not in a community.
This reminds me of a traffic law in my country:
It is illegal to go all the way around a roundabout 3 times in a row. There is not a police officer ok every roundabout, or a camera counting how many times you go around it. But if a kid goes off and do stupid shit at 2AM with a loud AF car, one of the things one might do is do many loops on a roundabout. Therefore they can’t just say “I’m not doing anything illegal, I’m just using the public roads with my car and a valid driver’s license”. Since one of the things they did was doing more than 3 rounds in a roundabout.
Reading between the lines they wrote this because of seeing “I hear you, and you are right to be suspicious — but I only use AI for spell checking, nothing more” one time too many.
Just skimming this thread (I don’t even know what Zig is) and this automatically flagged something in my mind. Ugh. Make it fucking end already