Re: on ai generated and code provenance

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

On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 10:57:09AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 10:48 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
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>     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/
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> 
> Yea. Assisted-by was not invented by AI companies. That's just rubbish.
> 
> See https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/36105 for the open
> issue with Claude.
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>     > (It's not just me; see
>     > https://akselmo.dev/posts/stop-advertising-in-your-commits/ for an
>     example).
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>     Does not impress me as being either super informed or super
>     professional.
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> 
> Yea, seems crazy.
>  
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>     > Also, it does not answer any interesting question.
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>     It does for me - I will learn which models are more likely to produce
>     bad slop.
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> 
> Same. I can tell the difference in the degree of slop between the different
> models
> and have sometimes selected the older one over the newer one because it does
> a better job.
>  
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>     > 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.
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>     In my experience, AI tools add "Co-developed-by:" tags by default. One
>     has to read the policy to add Assisted-by.
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> Co-authored-by: you mean? That's what claude adds for me. I had to take
> extra effort to add the new Assisted-by: to my patch review. 
> 
> Warner

Right.