NetBSD bans use of Copilot-generated code

The NetBSD project seems to agree with me that code generated by AI" like Copilot is tainted, and cannot be used safely. The project's added a new guideline banning the use of code generated by such tools from being added to NetBSD unless explicitly permitted by core, NetBSD's equivalent, roughly, of technical management".

Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as such as GitHub/Microsoft's Copilot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta's Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.

NetBSD Commit Guidelines

GitHub Copilot is copyright infringement and open source license violation at an industrial scale, and as I keep reiterating - the fact Microsoft is not training Copilot on its own closed-source code tells you all you need to know about what Microsoft thinks about the legality of Copilot.