The WH40K Homebrew Wiki aims to serve as a repository for fan-created content. As such, there have been some serious concerns regarding the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) generated images and text. AI systems have historically utilized artists' works without consent in order to develop algorithms and create new content.
For this reason, we strongly advise against employing AI tools. Any images or texts found to be of apparent AI origin will be removed from the wiki. Allowing such content would contradict our policies of supporting fan artists and showcasing our authors' creative talents.
Rationale
- Copyright concerns. At this point, the regulations concerning copyright of generated contents are still emerging worldwide. Using such material could pose a danger of copyright violations, but it could also weaken Gentoo claims to copyright and void the guarantees given by copyleft licensing.
- Quality concerns. Popular LLMs are really great at generating plausibly looking, but meaningless content. They are capable of providing good assistance if you are careful enough, but we can't really rely on that. At this point, they pose both the risk of lowering the quality of Gentoo projects, and of requiring an unfair human effort from developers and users to review contributions and detect the mistakes resulting from the use of AI.
- Ethical concerns. The business side of AI boom is creating serious ethical concerns. Among them:
- Commercial AI projects are frequently indulging in blatant copyright violations to train their models.
- Their operations are causing concerns about the huge use of energy and water.
- The advertising and use of AI models has caused a significant harm to employees and reduction of service quality.
- LLMs have been empowering all kinds of spam and scam efforts.
The sole exception is using AI chatbots to generate initial prompts or ideas for articles. This is permitted provided any AI-generated text is modified or replaced before full publication on the wiki. The AI content must only be used internally in draft spaces.