Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] The role of AI and LLMs in the kernel process

On Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:59:19 -0700
Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I contend there is a huge difference between *code* and
> > descriptions/documentation/...

> 
> As you might imagine, I'm not fully on board with that.  Code is assumed
> plagiarized, but text is not?  Subtly wrong documentation is OK?
> 
> I think our documentation requires just as much care as our code does.

I assumed what hpa was mentioning about documentation, may be either
translation of original text of the submitter, or AI looking at the
code that was created and created a change log. In either case, the
text was generated from the input of the author. Where as AI generated
code likely comes from somebody else's code. Perhaps AI was trained on
somebody else's text, but the output will likely not be a derivative of
it as the input is still original.

In that case, I agree with hpa on this.

-- Steve