Debian won’t ban AI code from its Linux distribution

Debian 不会禁止在其 Linux 发行版中使用 AI 代码

Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution’s “development, maintenance, [and] documentation.” The new policy on AI acknowledges that “responsible” use of AI can improve developers’ productivity, and goes on to say, “generative AI is neither exempt from nor subject to special rules beyond the standards already expected of Debian contributors.”

Debian 投票决定允许开发者在为该 Linux 发行版进行“开发、维护和文档编写”时使用 AI 工具。这项关于 AI 的新政策承认，“负责任地”使用 AI 可以提高开发者的生产力，并进一步指出：“生成式 AI 既不享有豁免权，也不受限于 Debian 贡献者既定标准之外的特殊规则。”

The project’s voting developers considered several other proposals on how to handle AI, including some that would have banned contributions made using AI tools. As It’s FOSS reports, some users and contributors aren’t happy with the policy, including one contributor who says he’s quitting and “no longer interested in anything coming from Debian.” Earlier this year, Ubuntu developer Canonical faced similar backlash over its own stance on AI.

该项目的投票开发者们曾考虑过其他几种处理 AI 的提案，其中包括一些旨在禁止使用 AI 工具进行贡献的提议。据 It’s FOSS 报道，一些用户和贡献者对该政策感到不满，其中一位贡献者表示他将退出，并称“对 Debian 出品的任何东西都不再感兴趣”。今年早些时候，Ubuntu 的开发商 Canonical 在其 AI 立场上也面临了类似的强烈反对。

While Debian won’t require contributors to disclose when they use AI, they’re still responsible for anything they submit using AI tools:

虽然 Debian 不会要求贡献者披露他们何时使用了 AI，但他们仍需对其使用 AI 工具提交的任何内容负责：

The Debian Project nevertheless expects that all contributions submitted to Debian, regardless of how and with which tools they were produced, satisfy the same standards of quality, correctness, maintainability, and legal compliance. The use of a generative AI tool does not diminish the contributor’s responsibility for the work they submit. Contributors are expected to understand, review, test, and, where appropriate, modify AI-assisted output before incorporating it into Debian. Blindly accepting or uploading AI-generated material without appropriate human review is inconsistent with Debian’s established development practices. We [encourage] our contributors to disclose whether a contribution was made with AI [assistance], but do not require them to do so.

Debian 项目仍然要求所有提交给 Debian 的贡献，无论其生产方式或所使用的工具如何，都必须满足相同的质量、正确性、可维护性和法律合规性标准。使用生成式 AI 工具并不会减轻贡献者对其所提交工作的责任。贡献者在将 AI 辅助生成的输出纳入 Debian 之前，必须对其进行理解、审查、测试，并在必要时进行修改。在没有经过适当人工审查的情况下盲目接受或上传 AI 生成的材料，与 Debian 既定的开发实践不符。我们[鼓励]贡献者披露贡献是否是在 AI [辅助]下完成的，但不强制要求这样做。