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SubmittingPatches: add section about AI

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As more and more developer tools use AI, we are facing two main risks
related to AI generated content:

  - its situation regarding copyright and license is not clear,
    and:

  - more and more bad quality content could be submitted for review to
    the mailing list.

To mitigate both risks, let's add an "Use of Artificial Intelligence"
section to "Documentation/SubmittingPatches" with the goal of
discouraging its blind use to generate content that is submitted to
the project, while still allowing us to benefit from its help in some
innovative, useful and less risky ways.

Helped-by: Rick Sanders <rick@sfconservancy.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Only capitalize the very first letter of the trailer, i.e. favor
"Signed-off-by" over "Signed-Off-By" and "Acked-by:" over "Acked-By".
[[ai]]
=== Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The Developer's Certificate of Origin requires contributors to certify
that they know the origin of their contributions to the project and
that they have the right to submit it under the project's license.
It's not yet clear that this can be legally satisfied when submitting
significant amount of content that has been generated by AI tools.
Another issue with AI generated content is that AIs still often
hallucinate or just produce bad code, commit messages, documentation
or output, even when you point out their mistakes.
To avoid these issues, we will reject anything that looks AI
generated, that sounds overly formal or bloated, that looks like AI
slop, that looks good on the surface but makes no sense, or that
senders don’t understand or cannot explain.
We strongly recommend using AI tools carefully and responsibly.
Contributors would often benefit more from AI by using it to guide and
help them step by step towards producing a solution by themselves
rather than by asking for a full solution that they would then mostly
copy-paste. They can also use AI to help with debugging, or with
checking for obvious mistakes, things that can be improved, things
that don’t match our style, guidelines or our feedback, before sending
it to us.
[[git-tools]]
=== Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits.