Hi Richard, Thank you for having taken the time to wrap your message up!
Richard Laager, au 2026-11-12 : > On 2026-11-12 12:27, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > If I understand the situation correctly, the best chance to get > > to a reasonable resolution would be to accomodate people's > > preferences on whether to trigger an inference upon NEW upload. > > I agree in part and disagree in part. > > I spent a lot of time thinking and editing a long write-up about this > yesterday. I'm still not sure if I'll send the whole thing. But this was one > of my key takeaways... > > I think we should allow for opt-outs where possible, as a reasonable > accommodation for people's sincerely held ethical concerns about generative > AI. > > While "should allow opt-outs for generative AI" would be a "special rule", > and thus conflicts with the winning GR option's text [1], I think this would > be a good compromise. > > But, those opt-outs should only be for the individual. They are not allowed > to push their position onto others. For example, one should be able to > opt-out of receiving LLM output when they upload to NEW, but not forbid the > DFSG team from using an LLM on their upload. I agree with you on this point, as I clarified to Andrey Rakhmatullin earlier tonight. I recognize my initial message to the list might not have been clear about that particular point. > This would be similar to dietary preferences. If someone is a vegan (e.g. > for ethical reasons), it is reasonable to say that we should offer them > lunch choices free of animal products. It is not appropriate for them to > force others to avoid eating animal products. I have the impression that we both share the same general idea. Yes, I guess LLM avoidance could be some sort of computer veganism; it might be far fetched, but I suppose you see the metaphor. Have a nice day, :) -- .''`. Étienne Mollier <[email protected]> : :' : pgp: 8f91 b227 c7d6 f2b1 948c 8236 793c f67e 8f0d 11da `. `' sent from /dev/pts/1, please excuse my verbosity `-
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