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But this was already the case. When someone submitted code to Linux they always had to assume responsibility for the legality of the submitted code, that's one of the points of mandatory Signed-off-by.
But now, even the person submitting the license-breaching content may be unaware that they are doing that, so the problem is surely worse now that contributors can easily unwittingly be on the wrong side of the law.
That's their problem. If they are using an LLM and cannot verify the output they shouldn't be using an LLM
Problem is that broadly most GenAI users don't take that risk seriously. So far no one can point to a court case where a rights holder successfully sued someone over LLM infringement.
The biggest chance is getty and their case, with very blatantly obvious infringement. They lost in the UK, so that's not a good sign.
Most GenAI users do not submit code to the Linux kernel project.
So why invite them to?
Nobody is inviting them