Hey folks, On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 05:57:31PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > >I think it's hard that many people will oppose your initiative. I mean, who >would say “lets not build an ethically sourced, resource efficient, >state-of-the-art LLM model that works better than the currently existing >proprietary options, and run it on community-hosted, not-for-profit, for >every interested user ever”? Yes, of course it is quite removed from >reality as of today, but so were a free Unix system, a pleasant and >integrated desktop environment, and many other things we now take for >granted... > >But having this proposal as an option to (or as a concurrent vote to) a >Debian policy on LLM-assisted (or LLM-generated) works seems a bit >misguided. After all, “we call to the Free Software community” is not “I am >starting a project and will devote 20 hours a week towards this goal” (and >of course, I'm not expecting you to. > >Would it be nice to have the perfect LLM, ethics-wise? Of course it >would. But just stating “it would be nice” is not prone to have much of an >effect.
Nod. This initiative is almost entirely orthogonal to the questions that are being raised by other proposals, which IMHO makes it a bad fit here. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "Managing a volunteer open source project is a lot like herding kittens, except the kittens randomly appear and disappear because they have day jobs." -- Matt Mackall
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