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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 Reviewed-by: Alex Benn=C3=A9e Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 --- 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 cle= arly defined copyright and licensing for their output. Note in particular the caveats applying to= AI content generators below. =20 -Use of AI content generators -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Use of AI-generated content +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =20 TL;DR: =20 @@ -294,6 +294,10 @@ TL;DR: believed to include or derive from AI generated content. This includes ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Llama and similar tools.** =20 + **This policy does not apply to other uses of AI, such as researching AP= Is + or algorithms, static analysis, or debugging, provided their output is n= ot + included in contributions.** + The increasing prevalence of AI-assisted software development results in a number of difficult legal questions and risks for software projects, inclu= ding QEMU. Of particular concern is content generated by `Large Language Models @@ -322,9 +326,6 @@ The QEMU project thus requires that contributors refrai= n 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. =20 -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. =20 Examples of tools impacted by this policy includes GitHub's CoPilot, OpenA= I's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Meta's Code Llama, and code/content --=20 2.51.0