CONTRIBUTING: Add Policy on the Use of LLM-generated Content

Such contributions are not being accepted at this time.  See
CONTRIBUTING for more information.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Merey <amerey@redhat.com>

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@@ -148,3 +148,25 @@ are hostile or offensive towards other committers or contributors,
 and don't correct their behavior after being asked by other committers
 will be removed as maintainer/committer.  See the CONDUCT file for more
 information regarding the elfutils code of conduct.
+
+Policy on the Use of LLM-generated Content
+
+The elfutils project does not currently accept contributions containing
+output generated by Large Language Models (LLMs).  Use of LLMs to research,
+analyze or debug a contribution is allowed as long as no LLM-generated
+output is included in the contribution.
+
+There are two exceptions where LLM output may be included in a contribution:
+
+(1) The output consists solely of trivial changes such as spelling or
+code formatting.
+
+(2) The LLM assists in the research or transcription of a contribution but
+does not generate any of the content. This includes accessibility-related
+uses of LLMs involving speech-to-text, for example.
+
+Contributors are not required to disclose the use of LLMs for these purposes.
+
+This policy may be reviewed or updated when the copyright status and
+Developer's Certificate of Origin (DCO) compatibility of LLM-generated
+output is clarified.