AI in Halloy

[cyrneko]

hiya!

first things first, I am coming here in search of more projects I like to add to the No-AI list I maintain. See this as a sort of disclosure

Regardless, I wanted to ask what the project's official stance was on using AI in PRs and such. There is a little bit of info to be inferred from this commit existing, but a commit existing isn't a clear policy.

If y'all hadn't considered it before, I want to encourage you all to talk about and figure out a proper policy on AI here, in the face of a lot of the issues that come with it.

This technology can seem useful at a first glance, it gives better autocomplete (sometimes) or can automate writing boilerplate, sometimes it can be used to review code even, and those are all totally fine things to want, but I don't think these are the tools that should do it.

These tools have real costs to people out there, even those that don't know what halloy is, merely by using it, and in some cases it might be difficult to figure out licensing and whatnot as all the legal cases are still advancing.

For instance, these companies are using their massive funds to build new datacenters in regions of the US where electricity is cheap, which tends to be where marginalized and poorer people live. This drives up their electricity cost, pollutes the air, and might harm some people due to infrasonic sound pollution¹².

Point is, there is many issues with the current AI hype that these companies have no intent to fix, so I want to call for Halloy (and others) to not actively support them. At least until the dust settles down and we can pull something good from the ashes.

Footnotes

1. because usually the datacenters are not built far away enough to prevent this ↩

2. https://conimby.org/blog/2025/09/12/the-real-safety-risks-of-data-centers-what-local-communities-need-to-know/ ↩

[casperstorm]

You can find our policy here: https://halloy.chat/contributing#ai

AI-generated content is not allowed in contributions. This includes code, documentation, issues, PR descriptions, and comments. AI tools may be used for research, learning, or bug discovery, but all submitted content must be written and understood by the contributor.

[cyrneko]

oh!! I somehow totally missed this!

ty!!!

[casperstorm]

We just added it! 🫡