That’s not the only thing that matters. The provenance of the code also matters enormously, specifically whether the person contributing it actually has the right to do so.

If I contributed code to an Open Source project behind my old employer’s back, that would have been bad, because that code was owned by them and not me, even if I wrote it on my own time using my own equipment, because of the contract I signed with them.

If I copied code out of an AGPLv3-licensed codebase and contributed it to a BSD-licensed codebase without telling anyone, that would have been bad, because I did not have the right to change the license on that code to BSD (or change the license on the codebase to which I was contributing to AGPLv3).

If you use an LLM to produce code, you may well be doing the latter since an LLM is actually just regurgitating portions of its inputs. This is not a hypothetical scenario; I’ve personally encountered a case of someone using an LLM attempt to contribute code I recognized from a specific Open Source project under one license to another project under a different license, while claiming they “wrote it themselves.”

Any project that accepts contributions needs to take liability seriously and manage their risk appropriately.

This is my whole point. The whole thing is ludicrous.

And lo and behold, people are losing their collective minds, bridgading my posts, flagging me and demanding credentials.