Re: [PATCH v2] SubmittingPatches: add section about AI
On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM brian m. carlson
> <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
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> > We could say something like this:
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> > Please do not sign off your work if you’re using an LLM to contribute
> > unless you have included copyright and license information for all the
> > code used in that LLM.
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> Would this mean that you wanted to ban contributions like d12166d3c8bb
> (Merge branch 'en/docfixes', 2023-10-23), available on the list over
> at https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1595.git.1696747527.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
> ? We don't need to go theoretical, I've already contributed such a
> patch series before -- 2 years ago -- and it was merged. Granted,
> that was entirely documentation, and I called out the usage of AI in
> the cover letter, and I manually checked every change (discarding many
> of them) and split it into commits on my own, could easily explain any
> change and why it was good, etc. And I was upfront about all of it.
This is a good example why we don't want to ban any use of generated AI. Thanks.
> If any use of AI is bad, do we need to revert that series?
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>