Gard Spreemann [31/Jul 10:56am +02] wrote: > Gard Spreemann <[email protected]> writes: > >> Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> - It clearly distinguishes including LLM output in what gets committed >>>> from other uses of LLMs for software development, as I have been >>>> repeatedly advocating is important, without much uptake. >>> >>> For the record, I also strongly agree with this distinction. Sean is not >>> alone. >> >> I completely agree, too. And I fear that none of the ballot options >> sufficiently cater to this distinction. >> >> Sean & Russ: How would you feel about a ballot option that bans >> LLM-generated contributions, but explicitly does not opine on the >> contributing human using LLM tools to e.g. debug, learn, plan, critique >> etc. when creating the contribution? >> >> (I realize that such a proposal might be interpreted by some as forcing >> those who are fine with LLM-generated code to become transcribers for >> the LLM, but I hope that's a minority view and that most would >> understand that that is not the intent.) > > Something like: > > DRAFT BALLOT OPTION > > **Ban AI-generated contributions, but allow AI assistance** > > Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the assistance of AI tools, > including generative ones, during the work of contributing to the > project. This includes e.g. tools used for research, learning, > debugging, critique, adversarial testing etc. during the creation of > contributions to Debian. > > However, the actual outputs of these tools suffer from several problems: > > * Unclear copyright status. > > * Difficulty with quality review and future maintenance. > > * Unanswered questions pertaining to what the preferred form of > modification is for software created this way. > > Debian therefore prohibits the inclusion of any AI-generated code, > documentation or other content into the project.
Thanks. I think this is a bit too narrowly focused, so overally I prefer the option I've already seconded. I'm also concerned about us having too many ballot options that people won't read them all carefully. -- Sean Whitton
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