DISTRIBUTIONS
Distros start to ban AI code
Generative AI continues to court controversy as Gentoo and NetBSD heavily restrict its implementation.
NetBSD’s Commit Guidelines consider all AI-generated code to be taintedunless the core developers provide an exemption for specific commits.
Despite the clear advantages of having AI create carefully crafted code, its use in major projects has been problematic.For instance, in March this year Nvidia found itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit. This centres on copyrighted material allegedly being used to train LLMs in the Megatron library for the tech giant’s NeMo generative AI framework. In December 2023, the New York Times launched its own lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, claiming that the newspaper’s articles had been used to train ChatGPT and other models.