Fedora-Council/tickets ticket #486: Discuss and decide on a Fedora Council policy on the use of AI-based tooling for contributions

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@t0xic0der filed Fedora-Council/tickets ticket #486. Discuss here and record votes and decisions in the ticket.

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Why?

In the Outreachy 2024 Orientation Call that took place on Friday, 08 Mar 2024, a bunch of AI assistant tools were used to transcribe what was spoken for the better ease of those who are participating as well as for those who were not participating (like me). Our applicants suggested tools from Otter.ai, Read.ai and some more and whilst they were used during the call, it was not until after the meeting that we realized that we perhaps need to be a lot more thorough in choosing which AI-based tooling to make use of for contributions.

AI is cool and all but I would be wary about the quality of contributions made with the help of AI-based tooling to the community as well as the safety of the contributors while using those. After all, we would hate to have our voices reused somewhere else without our express consent just because we overlooked some legalese written in as small a font size as possible. Also, a bunch of these tools make it mandatory for the users to log in and hence, they unknowingly consent to loads of marketing mail that they could totally do without.

What?

As a member of the Fedora Council, I ask that we discuss and decide on a policy for the use of AI-based tooling for making contributions. These could include but are not restricted to things like the nature of AI-based toolings used, the ways that one could maintain contribution quality, the things contributors need to be wary of while making a choice and the implications of copyright and trademark laws when a certain such tool is employed.