Re: on ai generated and code provenance

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 03:37:50PM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 3:31 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 01:27:40PM +0200, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> > > Maybe clarifying this in the policy could be
> > > done although there will always be people who ignore documents.
> >
> > One advantage of the linux style tags is that at least they differ
> > from whatever ai's put in by default. So whoever does it can get
> > banned pretty quickly.
> >
> 
> What would be the mechanism for that though? Getting the list
> administrators involved to ban email addresses from the list?

maintainers learning to ignore patches from bad actors works well enough.

> If banning is to be a deterrent, the process and rules should be
> codified in the docs so that it exists as a warning and there is
> little room for abuse and ambiguity in both sides.
> 
> >
> 
> -- 
> Manos Pitsidianakis
> Emulation and Virtualization Engineer at Linaro Ltd