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<p dir="auto">Until now QEMU's code provenance policy declined any contribution believed to include or derive from AI-generated content.  A blanket ban was easy to maintain while LLM output was rarely usable on its own, but as the tools improved an absolute prohibition has become harder to justify.</p>
<p dir="auto">…</p>
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<p dir="auto">Via <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-Patch-Allows-Some-AI" rel="nofollow ugc">QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions - Phoronix</a></p>
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<li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/programming-compilers/1636403-qemu-shifting-on-ai-policy-to-allow-some-ai-llm-generated-contributions" rel="nofollow ugc">comments</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1tqi4e1/qemu_is_deciding_to_shift_its_ai_policy_now/" rel="nofollow ugc">discussion in r/linux</a> – the first comment was popular but confused, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1tqi4e1/qemu_is_deciding_to_shift_its_ai_policy_now/op1zxg9/?context=1" rel="nofollow ugc">I responded</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/council/-/work_items/697#note_615925" rel="nofollow ugc">mentioned in</a> <em>Policy for AI/LLM contributions (#697) · Issue · alpine/council</em></li>
<li><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116672590901693172" rel="nofollow ugc">boosted in BSD Cafe Mastodon</a>.</li>
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<p dir="auto">The email was copied to Warner Losh (FreeBSD), Alistair Francis (<a href="https://www.westerndigital.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WD</a>), Alex Bennée and Peter Maydell (<a href="https://www.linaro.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Linaro</a>), and three people at Red Hat.</p>
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