Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

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Post by delduca » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
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Re: Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

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Post by TacticalCoder » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC

So Java, which powers a sizeable chunk of the real-world since two decades now, without needing the help of LLMish sloppy-pasta, is going to continue to power the Real World [TM] with its language and JVM that have been created with tens of millions of human man-hours without LLMish sloppy-pasta?

I'm shocked.

I'm not only shocked: I also see there a delicious irony in the countless of LLMish sloppy-pasta code that's now running and going to be run on man-made JVMs.

Re: Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

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Post by asdev » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

Would Cursor tab assisted code be considered AI generated? I feel like that was the epitome of AI assisted but quality code

Re: Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

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Post by rootnod3 » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

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Post by bhouston » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

Weird given how much Oracle has bet on AI, both in terms of data centres and in terms of layoffs.

Re: Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

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Post by rootnod3 » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

asdev wrote: post #3

Would Cursor tab assisted code be considered AI generated? I feel like that was the epitome of AI assisted but quality code

Yes. AI involved.

Re: Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

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Post by midnightbobarun » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

So contributions to OpenJDK have to be hand-written, while internally, Oracle uses AI generated code... I guess the logic is that employees who use AI generated code (theoretically) review their code better? The whole thing still seems a little strange.

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Post by slopinthebag » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

I would laugh for a week if the courts eventually found issues with using LLM content and forced companies to either publish their LLM generated code as public domain or they were forced to roll back their codebases to a pre-LLM state.

Probably won’t happen but clearly Oracle sees a potential for legal issues with LLM output.

Re: Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

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Post by fancyfredbot » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 5:57 PM UTC

The link is to a really poor summary of a better article by the register.

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/as-larry-el...

The register article is about this post:

https://openjdk.org/legal/ai