- Cloud Hypervisor Under Linux Foundation is concerned about AI code
- Copyright/legal issues and vulnerabilities are the main concerns
- It is pleased to revise the policy when LLMS “develops and matures”
Cloud Hypervisor has implemented a no-IA-generated code policy that will see that it is falling all contributions known to be generated or derived from AI tools.
Started in 2018 as a collaboration between Google, Intel, Amazon and Red Hat, this is an interesting development considering today’s state of vibe coding, with an estimated one-third of the new Google code coming from AI.
Cloud Hypervisor says this is to avoid problems with the license, but it will also reduce code review and maintenance burdens in the future.
Cloud Hypervisor implemented No-II policy for new code
“Our policy is to reject any contribution known to contain content generated or derived from using large language models (LLMS). This includes Chatgpt, Gemini, Claude, Copilot and similar tools,” the open source project explained -Capital Holders in a Github post.
Since 2021, the project has been under the guidance of the Linux Foundation, but it has also had contributions from Alibaba, Arm, Bytedance, Microsoft, AMD, Ampere, Cyberus Technology and Tencent Cloud over the years.
But now the Linux Foundation is concerned about the potential legal risks associated with using copyrighted code that is sometimes found in AI-generated code.
However, the time-saving benefits of AI are clearly recognized by the project leaders because this is not a point-blank ‘no’. Instead, “this policy can be revised when LLMs develop and mature,” they say.
More broadly, Google is not the only company that uses artificial intelligence to generate much of its code. About 20-30% of the code generated for some Microsoft projects is now AI-generated, and Meta predicts that as much as half of the development could soon be performed by AI.
Red Hat, on the other hand, has blogged about the dangers of AI-generated code that notices vulnerable code, quality problems and licensing risks.
