AI Outlawed ☠️ in Open Source Project

QEMU is actually a really important virtualization software

"so-called" is not referring to the "code generators" part of "AI code generators" it's referring to the "so-called AI".

I believe it is a correct move. The policy won't stop people from actuallly using said tools. That is not the point. However the project is legally protected from any litigious individual that decides that because they have written the same line of code before, that means the project has definitely stolen it from him. It is not going to change anything in practice (aside from getting rid of some blatant "As a large language model" style contributions).

I like the guy who just confidently stated that the copyright issue had already been resolved. I'm sure that'll be a big relief for many.

The fact that AI code is not copyrightable under current rules is super important. You can sit there and smugly attack a project for taking a hard line on this, but if coders using llms end up making open source projects uncopyrightable, then they end up effectively eliminating the enforceability of the open source license. It isn't about whether AI is a useful tool or not. It is about whether a single bad actor can effectively steal a project from its original authors. The same concern potentially applies commercial works created using AI as well. In that sense, a lot of people are playing dice with the devil.

for those who don't know, qemu was made by the guy who made ffmpeg

I think we're eventually going to have to come to terms with the ownership of ideas being a silly idea.

AI will end copyright soon, so this discussion is just a history.

QEMU is a huge part of running VMs on Linux so it's good to see they want to avoid shit code getting added

"Viralling opensourceness" is one of the phrases of all time.