A key Linux virtualization component, QEMU, is considering relaxing its blanket ban on AI-generated contributions to allow limited assistance from the bots. The suggestion came from Paolo Bonzini, distinguished engineer at Red Hat and a maintainer of the KVM hypervisor. Bonzini's suggestion is to allow AI assistance "where the ramifications of copyright violations are at least easy to revert and unlikely to spread." Core code would remain off-limits "without prior agreement from a maintainer." QEMU's current code provenance policy rejects anything that might include or derive from AI-generated content. "A blanket ban," wrote Bonzini, "was easy to maintain while LLM output was rarely usable on its own, but as the tools improved an absolute prohibition has become harder to justify." The problem with code from AI assistants is its source – does the submitter have the legal right to contribute the code?…