Hi,
thank you for your reasoning.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 08:14:53AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
1/ I believe that it's important for Debian to state that
LLMs raise many concerns (and not just related to copyright). That's
what this paragraph is trying to achieve (and I would welcome
suggestions to extend it from people against LLMs):
The Debian project recognizes that AI-assisted contributions raise
many concerns, e.g. about the technical quality and maintainability of
such contributions, and their legal status. AI itself also raises
additional concerns, about its impact on society at large, on the IT
industry and on Free Software; about its environmental impact; and the
aggressive or non-compliant practices of AI scrapers.
2/ I believe that a clear set of safeguards is useful to make LLM usage
by others less inacceptable for contributors who would prefer to reject
LLMs. Specifically, I think that disclosure is important because some
contributors might choose to apply different standards to AI-assisted
contributions (and that's fine).
I do not think that is fine, though. Why would I put a sound suggestion
on the bottom of the pile or bin it just because it was written with the
wrong editor or using a mail service I don't like?
Now I wonder and worry about this:
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.
And I wonder if there's a way to improve Proposal B to address this.
Either by removing the specific and interpretable language or by
writing more and more, which would probably open more doors for
malicious interpretation.
But in general, at this point I don't think that we should merge
our proposals.
Then I'm going to go ahead with my proposal.
Greetings
Marc
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