As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK
AI AND ML
Use it to debug and review, says Big Red, but don't submit its output
Oracle has told contributors to OpenJDK – the open source Java project it stewards – not to submit code or other material generated by AI.
In a post tagged "legal," Oracle said it was drafting a full policy on generative AI but had set interim ground rules. It cited risks involving review workloads, safety, security, and intellectual property.
"Contributions in the OpenJDK Community must not include content generated, in part or in full, by large language models, diffusion models, or similar deep-learning systems. Content, in this context, includes but is not limited to source code, text, and images in OpenJDK Git repositories, GitHub pull requests, e-mail messages, wiki pages, and Java Bug System issues," the post said.
Big Red said developers could still use LLM-based tools privately to "help comprehend, debug, and review...
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