The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers now have a need to set a policy whether AI / Large Language Model (LLM) generated patches will be accepted for this open-source compiler stack.
The GCC compiler doesn’t currently have a policy in place whether to permit AI/LLM-generated patches. But within a bug report today there is a patch posted by a user in trying to fix a GCC 16 compiler regression.
No, the license violations are the main problem.
AI will steal all publicly visible code regardless of its license as “training data” and then put out the same code almost verbatim when asked to solve the same problem. And projects need to prevent that to avoid costly legal battles they can’t afford.