Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoLinux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes — after months of fierce debate, Torvalds and maintainers come to an agreementwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square288linkfedilinkarrow-up1687arrow-down133
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minus-squareAlex@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoIf the 2-10% is just boilerplate syscall number defines or trivial MIN/MAX macros then it’s just the common way to do things.
minus-squareell1e@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoSo do you want to legally review every line by an LLM to see if it meets the fair use criterion, since you have to assume it was probably stolen?
minus-squareAlex@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoNo, that’s why the author asserts that with their signed-of-by. It’s what I do if I use any LLM content as the basis of my patches.
minus-squareell1e@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 days agoSo what does the signed-off-by magically solve here, that doesn’t require either you or the contributor to legally review every line by an LLM? If you’re not a lawyer, is your contributor going to be one?
If the 2-10% is just boilerplate syscall number defines or trivial MIN/MAX macros then it’s just the common way to do things.
So do you want to legally review every line by an LLM to see if it meets the fair use criterion, since you have to assume it was probably stolen?
No, that’s why the author asserts that with their signed-of-by. It’s what I do if I use any LLM content as the basis of my patches.
So what does the signed-off-by magically solve here, that doesn’t require either you or the contributor to legally review every line by an LLM? If you’re not a lawyer, is your contributor going to be one?