Re: on ai generated and code provenance

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

On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 06:05:47PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 5/27/26 16:14, Warner Losh wrote:
> > Why invent something new here when Assisted-by: is used elsewhere
> > and is likely more familiar to other users.
> 
> Because Assisted-by was invented by AI companies to get free advertisement.

Jonathan Corbet is in the pocket of AI companies? Or Sasha Levin?
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251223122110.2496946-1-sashal@kernel.org/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/877bqtlzug.fsf@trenco.lwn.net/

> (It's not just me; see
> https://akselmo.dev/posts/stop-advertising-in-your-commits/ for an example).

Does not impress me as being either super informed or super
professional.



> Also, it does not answer any interesting question.

It does for me - I will learn which models are more likely to produce
bad slop.

> Not using it is also a good way to sieve people who didn't bother to read
> the policy, now that I think about it.

In my experience, AI tools add "Co-developed-by:" tags by default. One
has to read the policy to add Assisted-by.