CONTRIBUTING.md: tweak wording with regards to ML tooling usage

ML tools do not satisfy the authorship requirement, so they are merely
used, and not "create" on their own.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
MergeDate: Thu Jun 25 07:22:26 2026
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/31643)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 3dea8a8fe3e61461eb22dcf94437cb56827173c8..63eaf4397d084519d965de8d545a6cdd2b411839 100644 (file)
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -81,12 +81,12 @@ guidelines:
     ```
 
  2. Similarly, if a non-trivial portion of a contribution was created
-    by an AI, you must declare which agent and model were used. This
-    is done by adding `Assisted-by: {agent}:{model}` below the commit
+    using an AI tool, you must declare which agent and model were used.
+    This is done by adding `Assisted-by: {agent}:{model}` below the commit
     message:
 
     ```
-        One-line summary of change with AI-created portions
+        One-line summary of change with AI-generated portions
 
         Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4-6
     ```