The AI policy in QEMU is not about content generators, it is about
generated content.  Other uses are explicitly not covered.  Rename the
policy and mention its scope only as a matter of convenience to the
reader, in the TL;DR section.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 docs/devel/code-provenance.rst | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/devel/code-provenance.rst b/docs/devel/code-provenance.rst
index b5aae2e2532..dba99a26f64 100644
--- a/docs/devel/code-provenance.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/code-provenance.rst
@@ -285,8 +285,8 @@ Such tools are acceptable to use, provided there is clearly defined copyright
 and licensing for their output. Note in particular the caveats applying to AI
 content generators below.
 
-Use of AI content generators
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Use of AI-generated content
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 TL;DR:
 
@@ -294,6 +294,10 @@ TL;DR:
   believed to include or derive from AI generated content. This includes
   ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Llama and similar tools.**
 
+  **This policy does not apply to other uses of AI, such as researching APIs
+  or algorithms, static analysis, or debugging, provided their output is not
+  included in contributions.**
+
 The increasing prevalence of AI-assisted software development results in a
 number of difficult legal questions and risks for software projects, including
 QEMU.  Of particular concern is content generated by `Large Language Models
@@ -322,9 +326,6 @@ The QEMU project thus requires that contributors refrain from using AI content
 generators on patches intended to be submitted to the project, and will
 decline any contribution if use of AI is either known or suspected.
 
-This policy does not apply to other uses of AI, such as researching APIs or
-algorithms, static analysis, or debugging, provided their output is not to be
-included in contributions.
 
 Examples of tools impacted by this policy includes GitHub's CoPilot, OpenAI's
 ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Meta's Code Llama, and code/content
-- 
2.51.0

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> The AI policy in QEMU is not about content generators, it is about
> generated content.  Other uses are explicitly not covered.  Rename the
> policy and mention its scope only as a matter of convenience to the
> reader, in the TL;DR section.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 01:32:16PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The AI policy in QEMU is not about content generators, it is about
> generated content.  Other uses are explicitly not covered.  Rename the
> policy and mention its scope only as a matter of convenience to the
> reader, in the TL;DR section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>  docs/devel/code-provenance.rst | 11 ++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>


With regards,
Daniel
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