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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

Linux 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 agreement

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Linux 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 agreement

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago
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After months of fierce debate, Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel maintainers have laid down the law on AI-generated code.
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    If you had a contributor that plagiarized at a 2-10%, would you really go “eh it has to have a degree of novelty to be a problem” rather than just ban them? The different standards baffle me sometimes.

    You can find various rates mentioned here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543507.3583199 and here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/685552/

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      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.

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        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? And would you do this for a known plagiarizing human contributor too…?

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