GCC Adopts Policy Rejecting Significant AI-Generated Code

2 months ago by cm0002 to c/linux

The GNU Compiler Collection will reject copyright-significant contributions derived from LLM output, with limited exceptions for trivial changes and test cases.

pcouy 14 points 2 months ago

It does not follow that merely looking at or altering the generated code makes it acceptable. By the rules that have been adopted, a contributor cannot take substantial implementation produced by an LLM, clean it up manually, and then treat the resulting patch as if it had been originally written by them.

I wonder how they intend to enforce this one. Raw LLM output will trigger some kind of "Spidey sense" for anyone woo has seen enough of it. But I don't know how I would tell manually cleaned up LLM output apart from manually written original code

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lil_baka 19 points 2 months ago

I have an impression that this is some legal rhetoric device that is intended to be used in courts in case there are copyright infringement claims. By saying that they don't accept such contributions they probably can make it a clear legal responsibility of the one who submitted the code and not the GCC project as legal entity. At least that's how I see it, but I'm not an expert in this topic.

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sneezycat 12 points 2 months ago

I feel like this is a case of xkcd 810

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quick_snail 3 points 2 months ago

Eh, it's still a copyright violation risk to the project

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NoneOfUrBusiness 2 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile me thinking what the Gulf Cooperation Council has to do with AI code.