DOC: do not posting LLM output as your own work

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit b6e16aa31a2e · 2024-11-20T11:50:19.000-05:00
diff --git a/doc/devel/contribute.rst b/doc/devel/contribute.rst
@@ -183,6 +183,23 @@ please cite us following the :doc:`/project/citing` guidelines.
 If you have developed an extension to Matplotlib, please consider adding it to our
 `third party package <https://github.com/matplotlib/mpl-third-party>`_  list.
 
+
+.. _generative_ai:
+
+
+
+Use of Generative AI
+--------------------
+
+We expect authentic engagement in our community.  Do not post verbatim output
+of Large Language Models or similar generative AI as comments on GitHub or our
+discourse server as your own work.  For proposed code changes ensure that you
+fully understand and can explain why the proposed changes work and are the
+correct approach.
+
+Using machine translation of prose is acceptable.
+
+
 .. _new_contributors:
 
 New contributors
