Re: Question about: Debian puts artificial intelligence to a vote; developers will decide how to accept AI-generated or assisted code

Problem: How would you know the factual answer to any of these questions???

A projects stands as delivered!

If on review it seems to be of high quality then what???

Maybe it came from Mars!

I know: Here is the test:

We throw the code out in a deep area of the ocean:

If it floats it is clearly AI and shall be rejected!

If it sinks it human written code! Then we will wait for James Cameron 
to raise it!

Out of the office notice I am on vacation in Romania.

This post was written by my Prototype AI Assistant!


On 8/21/2026 2:29 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Thomas Dineen wrote:
>> How will you know for sure that code is developed by AI?
>>
>> Lets consider a new app:
>>
>> Case 1) 100% developed by a human
>>
>> Case 2) Developed by human with the aid of AI
>>
>> Case 3) 100% developed by AI
>>
>> What criterion would you use to judge the difference???
> * Was the program produced ethically?
>
> * Was the program produced legally?
>
> * How much did developing the program cost the world in
> resources?
>
> * Is there a responsible human who knows the code, can answer
> questions about it, and owns the copyright and can thus make
> decisions about whether Debian can incorporate it?
>
>
>> Are you not proposing to disenfranchise whole new generations of
>> contributors?
> No. People who push buttons without understanding what they are
> doing are not contributors, any more than people who
> "participate" in conversations by pasting responses from LLMs
> are "participating".
>
>
> -dsr-
>
>