Servo is considering:
- allowing some AI tools for non-code contributions
- allowing maintainers to use GitHub Copilot for some code contributions over the next 12 months
These changes are planned to take effect in June 2025, but we want your feedback. More details:
github.com/servo/servo/discuss…
AI Policy Update Proposal · servo servo · Discussion #36379
Servo’s Technical Steering Committee is looking for feedback regarding our policy for contributions made with generative AI. The current policy, adopted in June 2024, is documented in the Servo boo...GitHub
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HyperSoop
in reply to Servo • • •Cringe + L + Ratio
I don't know how not to be confrontational here why do you want your users to eat slop you're not mozilla
happyborg
in reply to Servo • • •Relationally and technically IMO this is a bad move.
It reduces the likelihood of me building with or donating to Servo for various reasons.
Code is one of the least justifiable uses of LLMs, and then we have a plethora of ethical and potential legal problems needing to be worth any perceived benefits.
Why risk such a great project for questionable benefits?
m0xEE
in reply to happyborg • • •On the one hand, I'm pretty sure that it won't work, on the other I think a project like Servo is perfect for such an experiment, it might become a good case in point of why exactly this doesn't work — so others would stop having such ideas.
I feel conflicted about this 🤔
Cassandrich
in reply to Servo • • •silverwizard
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F4GRX Sébastien
in reply to Servo • • •boom. You're dead.
Edit: Enshittified even before version 1. That was impressively fast.
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in reply to Servo • • •Ben Zanin
in reply to Servo • • •don't do this, please.
The research data are pretty clear that LLM usage can improve the speed of authorship but usually at a medium to high cost in quality, which should be enough to disqualify its use; but even more importantly, adopting it will telegraph a project posture that will alienate exactly the kind of developer and user community a young project should be aiming to attract.
I hope you succeed wildly, thus I hope you do not adopt a policy of accepting LLM contributions.
ada_magicat
in reply to Servo • • •The way LLM makers have been literally DDOSing our public infrastructure I think this is morally wrong.
As for using it for documentation, I think the comments on accuracy are on point. If I want to read the project's documentation I want to read accurate authoritative information written by humans that know which parts are important. If I really want an LLM to summarise the codebase for me (I don't) I can do that on my own time, no need to add slop to the project's documentation.
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dch
in reply to Servo • • •d@nny mc²
in reply to Servo • • •Servo (@servo@floss.social)
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in reply to Servo • • •Cregg
in reply to Servo • • •I know a lot of the tech community is excited for Servo after seeing how other browser engines have disappointingly embraced AI.
I don't think this is a good idea. It's both a moral and technical dilemma that isn't worth the headache.
Brooke Vibber
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