RE: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Annotating patches containing AI-assisted code

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On September 16, 2025 9:06:01 AM PDT, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps we need a way to say "Hey, AI, give me a sort routine that is
>> compatible with the GPLv2 license" and then hope that it actually gives
>> you that! ;-)
>
>Current generation AI just gives output that looks like an answer to the
>prompt. So, in this case it might just slap
>
>// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
>
>on the output and call itself successful.
>
>If you want to be sure, you'd have to pay to train an AI model
>specifically on just GPL code and use that rather than some
>generic AI model trained on everything that could be scraped.
>
>-Tony
>
>

Now repeat that for every license subset that someone cares about. This is something that AI clearly doesn't hold a candle to humans yet: the ability to know what they don't know, and the ability to know what they *shouldn't* know in a particular context.