@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social
Post #4216362
2026-07-15 16:32 UTC
@tante@tldr.nettime.org I assume the discussion spun up around whether the Linux kernel should accept AI generated contributions. How would one practically avoid that? In your analogy of child labor the Kernel community would have to put out a statement that code written by means of child labor is not accepted in the Kernel. Reasonable. And the industries way of "ensuring" that is my having the contributor sign a piece of paper saying they don't use child labor. Would that be the same for AI generated code if the decision would be to not accept AI generated code? The code itself wouldn't be distinguishable from human written code. You'd just have to trust the person that they stand by their signature to not use AI tools for code generation.
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@peter_mcmahan@mas.to 2026-07-15 17:03
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org this one's easy. Have a policy against GenAI contributions. Maybe there will be dishonest contributors. If you catch them you use all the tools of open source reputation (conversation, bans, etc). Just like always. Holding people to standards is a problem for open source, but not a new one. People could be contributing closed source code and nobody would be able to tell. Open source has always relied on some level of trust.