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

[Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 02:46:11PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 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".

If the argument is that cetain LLM generated code cannot be used for code under
the DCO, then:

a) isn't this debatable? Do we want to itemize a safe list for AI models
   which we think are safe to adopt for AI generated code?
b) seems kind of too late
c) If something like the Generated-by tag is used, and we trust it, then
   if we do want to side against merging AI generated code, that's perhaps our
   only chance at blocking that type of code. Its however not bullet proof.

I'm however not sure if a) hold water. Are folks seriously taking these
positions somewhere?

  Luis