AI Policy Update: FreeCAD Team Strengthens Guidelines
The FreeCAD development team has updated its AI policy, now a standalone document. It prioritizes human contributors, addresses AI usage concerns, and sets expectations for LLM-assisted code submissions: mandatory disclosure, contributor responsibility, and chatbot-free communication with reviewers. Further updates are expected, with a long-term plan to track ethically created LLMs.
The FreeCAD developers team recently enhanced the initial AI policy introduced a few months back. The updated policy is now a separate document. It puts people first, covers the concerns over the use of AI, and sets the expectations for code submissions created with the help of LLMs.
In particular, the dev team expects contributors to disclose the use of AI in the pull request description, take responsibility for the code they are submitting, and communicate with code reviewers without the use of chatbots.
The AI policy will likely receive further updates. A longer-term plan is to track the emergence of ethically created LLMs for assisted development.