glibc AI policy

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Apr 14 18:09:54 GMT 2026


* Carlos O'Donell:

> On 4/13/26 8:52 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> For the record, I'm not happy with requiring Assisted-by:.  If those
>> companies want us to advertise their products, that's something they
>> should pay for.  It also raises the question whether we need to track if
>> users paid models or the free version, which may have different
>> ownership terms of generated materials.  Without such information, it
>> would be misleading to use the trailers for any project-specific purpose
>> (which is why I think it's mostly about advertising).
>
> Sorry, when I reviewed your earlier patch I tried to express that I did
> not think that we needed to write the name of the actual tool used, but
> I failed to express that clearly. When I said "LLM" I meant it literally
> in that we could use "Assisted-by: LLM" and that would be sufficient
> for now.

I can live with that.

Regarding outcomes, I would like to see a third one: We should not fall
into the trap a dehumanize contributions because we could be wrong.
Last week, Google Gemini claimed that the model names in a commit
message were AI hallucinations.  That felt … odd.  (I copied those names
from a log file; they do not match the names model providers use in
their marketing materials.)

Thanks,
Florian



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