Re: on ai generated and code provenance

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

On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 06:50:14PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 27.05.2026 um 18:41 hat Michael S. Tsirkin geschrieben:
> > On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 04:51:38PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > > Am 27.05.2026 um 16:14 hat Warner Losh geschrieben:
> > > > On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 4:01 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > Commit messages for AI-assisted changes
> > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > >
> > > > > When AI/LLM tools produce or substantively shape your patch, add an
> > > > > ``AI-used-for:`` trailer.  The text of the trailer could be one or more
> > > > > of ``code``, ``tests``, ``docs``, ``research``, possibly followed by an
> > > > > explanation in parentheses::
> > > > >
> > > > >      AI-used-for: tests, docs
> > > > >      AI-used-for: code
> > > > >      AI-used-for: code (refactoring)
> > > > >      AI-used-for: code (prototype)
> > > > >      AI-used-for: research
> > > > >
> > > > > The trailer is intended as a clarification of your DCO obligations as
> > > > > well as to guide reviewers.  It is not intended for minimal presence
> > > > > such as autocomplete or asking for a pre-review of the patch, and it
> > > > > does not remove your responsibility to understand the changes that you
> > > > > are submitting.
> > > > 
> > > > Why invent something new here when Assisted-by: is used elsewhere
> > > > and is likely more familiar to other users.
> > > 
> > > Because Assisted-by: gives different information, which at least to me
> > > isn't really interesting at all. It's much more interesting to me if the
> > > code I'm looking at is generated, or if you only generated the tests.
> > 
> > I personally am interested to know which models work better than others.
> > Contributions are about reputation not just code.  I'll learn which
> > models produce better output, just like I learn to trust specific
> > contributors better.
> 
> You don't see how well the model worked. What you see is filtered by the
> submitter, and the policy we're discussing is specifically made to make
> sure that bad results never reach the list.
> 
> Even for things that do reach the list, Assisted-by: doesn't tell you
> how much of the submission is AI-generated and it also doesn't tell you
> if it's "I used model X and a simple prompt gave me the perfect result
> in the first attempt" or "I used model X and it took me two days of back
> and forth and eventually I just rewrote most of it, but there are a few
> AI-generated lines left".
> 
> So what you should trust is the contributor, not an Assisted-by: tag.
> 
> Kevin

Well, AI-used-for research isn't really useful to me at all then.
Why do I care about research?

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MST