Hello everyone, Two things:
I'm writing this from my phone while sitting in a ski bus so I apologise in advance if my formatting is terrible and there is no signature. And I'm not a DD but work in a place where AI is created and/or researched. In the following, I'm sharing a few thoughts that haven't been considered yet. Debian requires all contributions to be correctly copyrighted or licensed. While this isn't a problem with human contributions, we cannot simply assume AI generated content to be the IP of the person promoting the AI. For instance in the EU AI generated material cannot be copyrighted since a machine has not the ability to create original work like we humans do. You can find a detailed study from 2025 explaining the situation. Section 1.3 is particularly relevant. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2025/774095/IUST_STU(2025)774095_EN.pdf That said if we allow AI generated content in the archives and assign the copyright to the author technically speaking this won't work in the EU. As mentioned before, Debian is widely used for it's stability. If we allow AI generated contributions in the repos, we have a bigger risk of making Debian unstabler. Gentoo for instance banned AI for said reasons. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy I'm not a lawyer but from my perspective we would bring Debian in very harsh legal waters. Then: how can someone be held accountable for code generated by AI? Remember Debian could run in nuclear power plants and i'm not sure if we want to take that burden on the maintainer if incidents occur. That's my two cents in that regard. Regards, --- Arian [email protected]
