The Register reports that System76 has added an explicit no-AI rule to the COSMIC desktop contributor guidelines, requiring contributors to declare that a pull request contains no LLM-generated code, comments or descriptions, and notes that GNOME Calendar and GNOME Extensions already restrict AI-generated submissions while still permitting AI learning aids and code completion. The article contrasts that position with GNOME developer Michael Catanzaro’s call for the project to accept AI-generated bug reports, arguing that developers will keep failing to write secure code in memory-unsafe languages such as C, C++ and Vala, and points to his earlier posts urging against a ban on AI-assisted issue reports and to his reduction of GNOME Security’s disclosure deadline from 90 days to 30. It frames the debate as a question of where projects draw the line as AI-assisted reports, triage and fixes spread, noting similar controversies in KDE and decisions to allow AI contributions in Debian and the Linux kernel.
COSMIC shuts the door on AI code as GNOME debates letting bug reports in
The Register reports that System76 has added an explicit no-AI rule to the COSMIC desktop contributor guidelines, requiring contributors to declare that a pull request contains no LLM-generated code, comments or descriptions, and notes that GNOME Calendar and GNOME Extensions already restrict AI-generated submissions while still permitting AI learning aids and code completion. The article contrasts that position with GNOME developer Michael Catanzaro's call for the project to accept AI-generated bug reports, arguing that developers will keep failing to write secure code in memory-unsafe languages such as C, C++ and Vala, and points to his earlier posts urging against a ban on AI-assisted issue reports and to his reduction of GNOME Security's disclosure deadline from 90 days to 30. It frames the debate as a question of where projects draw the line as AI-assisted reports, triage and fixes spread, noting similar controversies in KDE and decisions to allow AI contributions in Debian and the Linux kernel.
Source: The Register