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

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Mauro,

On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 at 19:32, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> wrote:
> Em Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:50:37 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> escreveu:
> > On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:23:29 +0200
> > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > Many of the AI players scrape the web, and might well pull in training
> > > > data from web pages having a restrictive copyright.  The AI's output
> > > > might then be influenced by that restricted training data.
> > >
> > > True, but this is not different than a developer seeking the web for
> > > answers of his development problems, reading textbooks and/or reading
> > > articles.
> >
> > The difference I believe is that AI is still a computer program. It could,
> > in theory, copy something exactly as is, where copyright does matter.
> >
> > If you read something and was able to rewrite it verbatim, you would be
> > subject to copyright infringement if what you read had limits on how you
> > could reproduce it.
>
> Maybe at the early days of LLM this could be true, but now that they're
> massively trained by bots, the number of places it retrieves data for
> its training is very large, and considering how artificial neurons
> work, they will only store patterns with a high number of repetitions.

How does it know which are reputable sources, and which are garbage?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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