Re: AI generated mails

On Sun, 23 Aug 2026, Osama Aldemeery wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 4:21 PM Christian Schneider <cschneid@cschneid.com> > wrote: > > > > In the thead "[PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] array_match" I got a > > reply starting with "Thanks for your feedback and for raising these > > valid points" and then sort of reiterating things I already > > addressed ("requires adding delimiters and wrapping the needle in > > preg_quote()") which leads me to believe that the > > response was AI > > generated. I might be wrong in this specific case but it got me > > thinking. > > > > I'm not sure I want to spend time arguing with AIs and was > > considering replying with "AI;DR" (AI; didn't reply) but I realize > > that this can be considered rude. I think that replying with "AI;DR" is less rude than expecting all 1199 receivers on this list to want to read overly long-winded LLM generated text, where seamingly the human-written text from one contributor gets fed into a sloperator to get a reply. > > Just to be clear: I realize that AIs help a lot for non-native > > speakers to express themselves but when I get the feeling that the > > whole argument was generated and not only translated then I get a > > bit defensive about my personal time and energy. > > > > As I'm expecting more and more generated mails on this list: What is > > the feeling on the mailing list about how to handle this? > > Since this isn't the first time this has come up, I'd like to ask > whether it's time internals discussed an AI-usage policy? Yes, this is long overdue. For now, I will talk about this mailinglist first (and only). With that, we end up with drivel like this: https://externals.io/message/132300#132332 (au contraire the acceptance to not do this, as per https://externals.io/message/132300#132317). This is a list for *people* to discuss the PHP language, its features, and its policies. Therefore, a policy for this list ought to be that you *have* to write the content yourself. If that means writing it in non-English and feeding it through a *translating-LLM* only, that that seems reasonable. What does not seem reasonable is to ask a tool to write the text for you, and then copy and pasting this as a reply to this list — especially because it doesn't deal with the trimming and quoting (as per our guidelines at https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/docs/mailinglist-rules.md ). cheers, Derick