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AI is creeping into the Linux kernel - and official policy is needed ASAP (www.zdnet.com)
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[-] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 76 points 2 days ago

They found 1 (one!) commit in git, and report that's it's all over the kernel. Nice journalism.

[-] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

That's ZDNET!

[-] WizardGed@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Checked who the author was, should have guessed... SJVN. He certainly has a flair for taking something relatively small, that a solution already exists for and suggesting something bureaucratic, unnecessary, and completely outside his technical competence. This is one of those things that the kernel devs can, and will solve when it's a real problem. Random journalists and armchair experts can wait till they're called upon.

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"it's one horse and they report that it's all over troy. nice journalism" - people living in troy

[-] dataprolet@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

Have you read the article? It's also about the tools and general discussion about LLMs in kernel development.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I mean, read into what they wrote about:

I'm pleased to announce the release of AUTOSEL, a complete rewrite of the stable kernel patch selection tool that Julia Lawall and I presented back in 2018[1]. Unlike the previous version that relied on word statistics and older neural network techniques, AUTOSEL leverages modern large language models and embedding technology to provide significantly more accurate recommendations.

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Would be great to hear more. My very subjective feeling is that the last batch of AUTOSEL is much worse than the previous. Easily 50% of false positives.

Seems the newly rewritten kernel review tools wasn't what waa expected as an upgrade.

https://lists.linaro.org/archives/list/linux-stable-mirror@lists.linaro.org/thread/EJWMRUH2JTI34CPWVZZG62XJ7HMIH5WT/

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