Bug 2011195 - When an agent commits, don't add itself as author r=ai4… · mozilla-firefox/firefox@71cc24b
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…dev-reviewers,suhaib DONTBUILD Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D279515

Usually code contributions by various LLMs are easily identifiable because the agent is the author for the git commit. Mozilla on the other hand seem to be explicitly encouraging unattributed LLM code in Firefox. Also note jakearchibald, Mozillas AI spin doctor whenever devs question their intentions, lying about the reasons for this change. I think their true intentions are to muddy the waters to hide the amount of slop contributions in Firefox.

  • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1161·
    2 days ago

    This change is about preventing AI from trying to own the change. A human must own the change.

    AI cannot own a Firefox contribution. AI cannot commit code to Firefox. Only a human may do that.

    If a human uses AI (or autocomplete / a formatter / a transpiler / whatever else) to help them author code, that doesn’t devolve them of responsibility. The human must take ownership and responsibility for the output.

    For example, if we later run git-blame on a section of the code, we want to see the human that took responsibility for the code, not some AI.

    Firefox’s policy on AI code: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/ai-coding.html

    • neclimdul@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      You tell people they can turn their brain off and trust the AI enough and they might just start doing it.

    • Tigeroovy@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      I’m sure there will be some that won’t. But it will probably be a shockingly small number of them that care enough to not.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Nothing is stopping a human contributor from using AI without attribution already.

      Let’s say there’s an issue and you want to include the original stakeholder about the change. Instead you hit a dead end, annotation says AI but no way to reach the human that initiated the change.

    • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 days ago

      I would believe you if you told me that. There’s not much else to explain it other than incompetence (which I suspect is the actual reason).

  • egerlach@lemmy.caEnglish
    29·
    2 days ago

    While I think that this isn’t on target, I believe it to be mis-executed rather than misguided: I think they were trying to support their AI Coding Policy by removing any notion that Claude was responsible for the work (therefore leaving the human responsible). What it does in practice of course is just hide AI-generated code. Since the commit setting can be anything you want, I believe a disclaimer that the commit was assisted by Claude but that the committer is considered the author of the code would be a better choice (and I said so on the thread). I hope they improve their choice.

  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    I have used firefox since it was netscape, so it was a bit sad when I switched to waterfox after they made the bullshit AI announcement. I’m hoping something better comes along but I have little faith it will happen.

  • Casterial@lemmy.world
    105·
    2 days ago

    I stopped using Firefox because it was slowly becoming a bug filled mess. It’s in the trash with chrome for me now