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Nelson: rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy

The Rust programming language's official repository, rust-lang/rust, has adopted a new LLM policy stating that no contributor is required to read or use LLM-generated output, LLM output must be clearly marked in public docs, PR descriptions, and GitHub comments, and LLM reviews cannot substitute for human review. The policy, announced by a user named Nelson, emphasizes that policies are written for humans first and only summarized for machines, while allowing private use of LLMs without disclosure.

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No one except the author is required to read LLM output unless they choose to: LLM output isn't allowed in public docs, PR descriptions, or Github comments unless it's clearly marked; reviewers aren't required to look at LLM PRs if they don't want to.No one is required to use LLMs to contribute to

rust-lang/rust: policies must be written first for humans, and only summarized for machines; LLM reviews cannot substitute for human review or self-review.You are allowed to generate LLM content that only you see, without disclosure, as long as you do not post it anywhere that you expect us to read or review.

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