Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add agent coding assistant configuration to Linux kernel

David Hildenbrand
2025-07-28T10:48:01Z

On 28.07.25 12:37, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 11:27:48AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> This must not be the new mechanism to DoS kernel maintainers with AI slop.
>
> I will note that we are already getting this kind of "slop" today, with
> the numbers going up on a weekly basis. Be lucky if you haven't seen it
> in your subsystem yet...

It's getting more (but in core-mm not too bad for now), and I hope that
there will be a reasonable "use of AI" policy for the kernel soon.

At some point I even assumed Sasha was AI-slopping us [1].

We cannot keep complaining about maintainer overload and, at the same
time, encourage people to bombard us with even more of that stuff.

Clearly flagging stuff as AI-generated can maybe help. But really, what
we need is a proper AI policy. I think QEMU did a good job (again, maybe
too strict, not sure).

I'll note one interesting thing in the QEMU commit I linked:

"Thus far though, this is has not been matched by a broadly
accepted legal interpretation of the licensing implications for code
generator outputs. While the vendors may claim there is no problem and
a free choice of license is possible, they have an inherent conflict
of interest in promoting this interpretation."

[1]
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a4d8b292-154a-4d14-90e4-6c822acf1cfb@redhat.com

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb