Re: Ballot option: Allow AI-Assisted Contributions

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:33:34 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote
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Lucas Nussbaum [23/Jul  3:49pm +02] wrote:
> In practice, when reviewing the code generated by an LLM in response to
> a prompt, I try to identify whether some of the provided code could be a
> simple regurgitation from code available elsewhere.
>
> In practice, in my experience it only happens with made-up examples
> designed to cause such regurgitation: in normal development workflows,
> the generated code is usually too context-dependant to risk including
> pre-existing copyrighted material.

Just the other day at work, an LLM essentially copied some code of mine
from somewhere in Emacs.  I wouldn't have identified it as such if it
had not been me who wrote it (and I had to check).

-- 
Sean Whitton

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