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/teleprint-me 14h ago edited 14h ago

  The human who committed the code should be responsible.

Basically you agree with me here. I literally said this already.

  It's not really a reference. You lack most of the settings and even if you did manage to reproduce the output you still don't know the logic behind it. It's not the same as looking up a quote in a book and reading the surrounding text for context.

Not true. APA requires LLM disclosure and has an adapted format for this already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiS3n6Gs5Wg

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u/PixelatedGiant 10h ago edited 10h ago

Sorry I worded that badly. Attributing knowledge of something to a different author serves two purposes:

  1. The ability to refer back to sources for more knowledge. You can look up a quote and read the surrounding context or the entire book/paper/etc. itself.
  2. Giving credit and showing that the idea is not yours.

LLMs clearly can't fulfill point #1. You go back to the LLM, punch in all the aforementioned settings and reproduce the same result. But no new knowledge is gained, there's nothing more there. Then we have authorship or giving credit. But as we both agree, the human has to take responsibility for that anyway so it can't fulfill point #2 either.

I'm not arguing that ADA is insufficient, I'm arguing that the whole idea of attributing authorship of code to an LLM serves no purpose.