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NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code (mastodon.sdf.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I get banning for quality, but for potential copyright is pretty stupid.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

It's not really stupid at all. See the matrix code example from this article: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-code-generation-ownership

You can't really know when the genAI is synthesizing from thousands of inputs or just outright reciting copyrighted code. Not kosher if it's the latter.