Hi, On Sun, Jul 26, 2026 at 09:38:28AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
1) It would be wise to add a preamble about it being explicitly a "position statement" as per Constitution 4.1.5, to avoid overarching interpretation/application in case it wins. (Similar to what Lucas' did in his proposal.)
Done.
2) And speaking of Lucas' proposal, in the interest of avoiding over-complicated ballots for voters, I'd like you and Lucas to comment on how the two relate to each other. In my view, at a very high level, they are quite similar.
I think that Lucas' proposal has a lot more language about guidelines that could lead to an "editorial changes" effect that I deliberately try to avoid. I see the numbers 1, 2, and 4 of Lucas proposal having the possibility of such interpreatation.
Lucas' proposal has an additional explicit point about mandatory disclosure of AI assistance. Yours doesn't and I'm assuming that's on purpose, correct?
I do not have such a strict stance on the attribution clause, but seeing AI as just a very powerful tool, why would I want/need to state what tools I used to create something that I reviewed and tested after its generation. Noone is currently forced to say "I used a jetbrains closed source IDE to generate the boilerplate structure of classes foo, bar and baz including the getter and setter methods".
Other than that, Lucas' proposal has more specific comments on various aspects/consequences of AI assistance; your doesn't, but as a voter I don't see this difference as something that would make me strongly favor one option over the other.
Yes, I did not want that in my ballot options as this levels the fighting ground for the next rounds.
So one possible way forward to simplify the ballot, if you two agree, would be to have on the ballot your proposal (which is shorter, KISS) + and another option which has identical text + a paragraph about mandatory disclosure.
I would be willing to build a second ballot options that it basically identical but has one or the other more specific option on it, if Lucas agrees about that.
Lucas, I would love hearing your opinion about deliberately being less specific.
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