Re: [RFC PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: (AI?) Tool disclosure tag

Al Viro
2025-07-25T17:45:40Z

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 11:49:02AM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:

> > Except from a copyright point of view. The situation is quite clear for
> > deterministic code generation, it's less so for LLMs.
>
> As long as you'd acknowledged the use of the LLM in all cases, it seems to
> me right to say to what degree you use it (i.e. the 1..3) above.
> I think even most people worried about copright issues would worry
> less if an LLM had just told you about a problem (1) and you fixed it.
> (Although obviously IANAL)

s/told you about a problem/told you that <location> has triggered some
heuristics and might or might not be worth looking into/, really...