r/linux • u/MMORPGDev • 19h ago

Development Linux Kernel Developers Plan To Remove "Assisted-By" Tag Requirement For AI/LLM Usage

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Assisted-By-Req
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u/foolish_shrimp 19h ago

If AI is so good, why do they always want to hide that they’re using it.

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u/ficiek 19h ago

Nobody is hiding anything, the policy is impossible to enforce and therefore pointless.

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u/foolish_shrimp 19h ago

It's also impossible to enforce child labour being used on the Linux kernel, but we can reasonably assume it isn't being used and if it was discovered that it had been, there would be consequences. 'People will just lie' is a bad argument, we assume a level of ethical integrity and basic decency from others.

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u/RangerNS 17h ago

can reasonably assume it isn't being used

Can we? I mean, without a X-Child-Labour: False tag in the git signature, who is to say?