Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Annotating patches containing AI-assisted code

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>]

Em Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:54:42 +0200
Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> escreveu:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Use of a local service might seem attractive, but even if you somehow
> > know for sure that it doesn't send your prompts off somewhere, it very
> > likely at least logs them, for customer-service purposes if nothing else.
> > Which might be less obviously troubling that broadcasting the prompts
> > publicly, but any logged prompts are still discoverable in the legal
> > sense.  
> 
> I think by "local service" Mauro may mean, in general, open source
> projects that do not require network access and that would not have
> customer service in the commercial sense and so on. Some open source
> projects still have logging or telemetry, of course -- I don't know
> how common that is in libraries/apps of that domain -- but if so I
> guess forks would appear, or people would run them in isolated VMs if
> they are concerned about things like that, etc.

As far as I know, running ollama locally won't send any telemetry,
and can run even without Internet, but I'm not an expert and never
looked on its source code[1].

[1] https://github.com/ollama/ollama

Thanks,
Mauro