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If your contributions are genuinely indistinguishable from AI code, then this shouldn’t affect you. There would be no way to enforce it

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I think they arent even trying to build an AI detector. This is more of a social signal like "dont send us an automatically generated flood of changes"

There is legally. Make sure they sign the DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin). They will fail at the first paragraph

(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I have the right to submit it under the open source license indicated in the file; [...]

https://developercertificate.org/

Why will they fail? They will simply sign it and continue.

I guess that means no IDEs doing refactoring or automating common code. Not linters altering code, etc... right ? Because that's the same thing.

How about if AI generates code in a file, then I copy/paste bits... like stack overflow ?

> I guess that means no IDEs doing refactoring or automating common code. Not linters altering code, etc... right ? Because that's the same thing.

I assume most IDEs allow you to use their snippets under many different licenses. LLMs have mostly been trained on public git repos under lots of different licenses (most importantly, Copyleft licenses)

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