Torvalds calls AI disclosure rules 'utterly stupid' as Linux drops its tag

Dropping “Assisted By” is different from banning AI anywhere, though.

I actually disagree with the former, and wholly agree that AI should be allowed in Linux. We want to measure AI’s growing contribution, demonstrate that it can write good code, and identify problems that AI code that don’t appear in human code so they can be fixed.

> Jeff Layton, a kernel developer at Red Hat, had earlier given three reasons to drop it. Not everyone follows the policy, he said. The tag “basically serves as free advertising for proprietary LLM companies”, he added, and it is unclear why the kernel collects the information at all.

Even though not everyone follows the policy it’s still roughly accurate and maintainers can remove the model company from the commits.