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AI disclosure is no longer required for the Linux Kernel (thelemmy.club)
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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=14c897740388216acd59477a382de327d5e27ba4

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[–] 22 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

They why try to hide it? If AI is not problematic at all, why do 90% of AI bros hide it and refuse to disclose and when they do are often extremely cagey about it?

For these types of projects, it is standardized what compiler they are building against, kernel /proc allows you to see what compiler was used.

Why does AI, which Linus himself has compared to compilers numerous times, get a complete pass and absolutely nothing has to be specified about them whatsoever (in the anti-AI-Disclosure advocation space of course)?

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  • [–] -2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 child)

    i have seen the complete opposite, just because some post doesnt start with THIS WAS DONE BY AI doesn't mean someone's trying to hide it. i recently saw a post where they shared the repo, you could clearly see claude as a contributor in the repo and many of the commits were done by it. but apparently they were trying to hide it. these kinds of complaints sound that came from people who have never used git, let alone touch a single line of code.

    the comparison is not correct. a compiler is deterministic, asking about it is asking about a standardized tool. ai is stochastic, asking about it does not guarantee reproducibility, which is the whole point, not suspicion about if the compiler did or did not translated it properly into machine code. furthermore, precisely since ai is stochastic, even if you knew which model and version you used, you'd get different results, which needs review anyway.

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  • [–] 7 points 17 hours ago

    Eh, I see every 4th project post in open source communities being a cool looking project with no Claude contributed, no AI disclaimer, no agents.md, however when you look at the user's commit history on the git service, it is

    • 10-20 contributions (mostly issues) before 2025
    • maybe a couple readme or documentation commits in total
    • mid to late 2025, user starts committing 500-5k lines per day, every 3-5 days, evolving from large commits to broken up 100 commits today (following the 2025-2026 timeline where AI started doing the same)
    • exact same commit structure that AI uses, and filled with jargon
    • no comments at all on the post, or few comments but never responding to anything technical about how the program works.

    Probably some confirmation bias going on on both our sides.

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