From f298e5d03bbe158289f9626053e0f3057a06e484 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Sybren=20A=2E=20St=C3=BCvel?= Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 15:28:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Website: add clause about the use of AI to the GSoC page --- web/project-website/content/development/gsoc/_index.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/web/project-website/content/development/gsoc/_index.md b/web/project-website/content/development/gsoc/_index.md index 10aecc16..d476299b 100644 --- a/web/project-website/content/development/gsoc/_index.md +++ b/web/project-website/content/development/gsoc/_index.md @@ -12,6 +12,15 @@ The most important tip: **use your own brain. Show that you can think and find information yourself. This will greatly increase your chance of acceptance.** So congratulations, you found this page! That's a good start. +As an extension of the above: **do not use ChatGPT or other AI**. This goes for +writing your proposal, the communication in the chat, as well as writing code +yourself. If your English is not that good and you feel insecure about that, +don't worry. For most of the team, English is not their first language. Your +mentor will want to communicate with _you_ though, and not with some AI. Also +the copyright status of AI-generated code is dubious, and you may not have +permission to share the code and claim that you wrote it. As such, AI-generated +code cannot be accepted. + Another way to increase your chances: **don't over-sell your skills**. Using Flamenco once or twice is not enough to say you "*know Flamenco*". If you don't know all of the programming languages and techniques used in the project, that