Torvalds calls AI disclosure rules ‘utterly stupid’ as Linux drops its tag
Kernel maintainers have dropped the rule asking contributors to disclose AI use. When a developer objected, Linus Torvalds told him to stop using compilers too. Understanding the code is what counts, he says.
Via TNW | Artificial-intelligence
“Do you not see how UTTERLY STUPID those kinds of rules would be?”
Linus Torvalds wrote this on the Linux kernel mailing list on 13 October. He was replying to a developer who wants contributors to keep declaring when they use AI tools. The Register first reported the exchange.
The rule in question is the Assisted-by tag. Since January, the kernel’s documentation had asked anyone using “any sort of advanced coding tool” to add the tag to their commit message…
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