Linuxiac reports on the kernel mailing-list dispute over the Assisted-by: LLM tag, where Linus Torvalds rejected attempts to restrict which development tools contributors may use. Kernel developer Sasha Levin proposed dropping the disclosure requirement after finding it ineffective: only about 10 percent of the 18,533 non-merge commits in Linux 7.3 through release candidate 7 carried the tag, even though AI tools are believed to be used far more widely, and the revised proposal would remove the requirement from the contribution documentation and from checkpatch.pl, with Greg Kroah-Hartman now backing removal after previously supporting the tag. When Laurent Pinchart argued that clear expectations about AI use remain necessary, Torvalds replied that he did not understand the ‘idiotic concept of don’t use AI for X’ and sarcastically suggested banning compilers so developers would have to write assembly. Dropping the tag would not make AI-assisted contributions unacceptable, but it would end the declaration requirement.
Linus Torvalds rejects AI coding bans as Linux rethinks disclosure rules
Linuxiac reports on the kernel mailing-list dispute over the Assisted-by: LLM tag, where Linus Torvalds rejected attempts to restrict which development tools contributors may use. Kernel developer Sasha Levin proposed dropping the disclosure requirement after finding it ineffective: only about 10 percent of the 18,533 non-merge commits in Linux 7.3 through release candidate 7 carried the tag, even though AI tools are believed to be used far more widely, and the revised proposal would remove the requirement from the contribution documentation and from checkpatch.pl, with Greg Kroah-Hartman now backing removal after previously supporting the tag. When Laurent Pinchart argued that clear expectations about AI use remain necessary, Torvalds replied that he did not understand the 'idiotic concept of don't use AI for X' and sarcastically suggested banning compilers so developers would have to write assembly. Dropping the tag would not make AI-assisted contributions unacceptable, but it would end the declaration requirement.
Source: Linuxiac