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

["Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 02:46:11PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 10:31:27AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 05/08/2025 19:50, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > With AI you do not have to even write it. It will hallucinate, create
> > some sort of C code and you just send it. No need to compile it even!
> 
> Completely agreed, and furthermore, depending on how that AI was
> trained, those using that AI's output might have some difficulty meeting
> the requirements of the second portion of clause (a) of Developer's
> Certificate of Origin (DCO) 1.1: "I have the right to submit it under
> the open source license indicated in the file".

Should the rules be:

1) No submissions directly from an AI agent. The From: line must
always refer to a human.

2) The human on the From: line takes full responsibilty for the
contents of the patch. If it is garbage, or broken in some way
there's no fall back on the "but AI wrote that bit".

-Tony