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Linux Foundation's AI policy: "If any pre-existing copyrighted materials[...] are included in the AI tool’s output, [..] the Contributor should confirm that they have have permission from the third party owners" https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/generative-ai "If"? Why not "whenever"? https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/38072#issuecomment-4105681567 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543507.3583199 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949719123000213#b7 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/685552/ And how would the contributor even be aware, should they research every snippet for hours? Seems like an impossible policy, or am I missing something...? #AIslop #LLMslop #LLM #LLMs #slop #generativeAI #Linux #opensource #linuxfoundation

The Linux Foundation apparently thinks you can look at a snippet real hard for a minute or so, and you’ll magically figure out if it’s stolen or plagiarized from somewhere. Otherwise, I don’t understand how their policy would possibly work. It’s not like they’re linking some sort of plagiarism checker, and as far as I know, those aren’t reliable anyway.

Does somebody understand how that’s meant to work? I’m curious. If I’m judging them too harshly here, I would like to know.