Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: Include git commit id and git tree id in *.changes
files when [SUMMARY] uploading?"):
> On 13/01/26 at 11:53 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Generative AI is
> > - an environmental disaster
> > - a criminal conspiracy (of which Debian is a victim!)
> > - a pyramid scheme, stock market bubble, and generally, an investment scam
> > - a scheme for undermining and impoverishing workers
> > - an act of theft against creators everywhere (including all of us!)
> > - a machine for generating plausible-looking misinformation
> > - generally, fascist-aligned
> > It is a complete disaster from every point of view.
...
> If you want to ban AI-assisted contributions in Debian, maybe you should
> propose an official policy about that.
We need an explicit policy that we should not make use of a criminal
conspiracy of which Debian is the victim ?!
I know that in Debian any attempt to avoid involvement with terribly
harmful practices and institutions is decried as "political".
But in this case the people you are getting into bed with are the same
shysters as are taking down Salsa (and other Debian infra) with their
rampaging slop slurpers! Like any system administrator this makes my
blood boil. They're the same people who are making hard to even buy a
computer, with their bubbles and market manipulation!
Even if we collectively don't care about the enviornment, don't care
about democracy, don't care about pension funds being scammed, don't
care about workers or creators, etc., surely we can all agree that we
should care about Debian itself?
Ian.
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