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Re: BCP 78 policy / copyright / Generative AI / LLM .. is there a FAQ?

Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> Mon, 18 August 2025 21:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: BCP 78 policy / copyright / Generative AI / LLM .. is there a FAQ?
To: Job Snijders <job@sobornost.net>
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM Job Snijders <job@sobornost.net> wrote:

> [...]
>
> Is it documented somewhere for IETF newcomers that internet-draft
> submissions should not contain LLM/AI generated text? I imagine that
> similar clarifications for the IETF context along the lines of "text
> _about_ AI is fine, but text generated by AI has legal implications"
> would be very helpful.
>

As an additional datapoint... cURL requires the source of a vulnerability
report be stated because the project was being overrun with false positives
and low quality bug reports from AI generated slop. See <
https://curl.se/mail/lib-2025-05/0013.html> and <
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/17325>.

Jeff

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