Hi, André Batista <[email protected]> writes:
[...] > To my understanding, this GCD asserts a general distrust of GenAI usage > for the various reasons refered to in the motivation section. > > As such, people more aligned with the project, people that somehow are more > officialy tied with guix and that can be seen as project > representatives, are being asked to avoid its usage (on the project's > context and on the designated use cases) and to commit to that. And I think this is where this GCD makes reaching consensus difficult: it tries to have us agree on a shared world view that GenAI as a whole should be seen negatively, for environmental, social and other reasons. If you don't agree (or simply do not think this kind of stance belongs in a free software project), then the exercise of reaching consensus on the commitments or policies, knowing the reasons that motivated their existence, becomes difficult. I'm also firmly of the opinion that introducing expectations/policy/rules bound to divide our community or taint our view of some of its members is not a good thing, especially since genAI has been with us for a couple years already and we so far haven't seen serious practical issues with it (such as being buried under a mountain of genIA slop review requests). In my view, the "let's take a stance against genAI" appears more like a PR exercise, than solving an actual problem we've been dealing with. If it had been presented with the licensing risks as the main focus, I would have been more receptive to it, I think, but I'd also have questioned then why, if we worry about protecting the project against license claims, we do not have some kind of Developer's Certificate of Origin as in place as used in the Linux project [0], or why distributing the copyright ownership across every contributor (instead of keeping it under the control of a single entity, like the FSF) is not seen as a concern in the event we'd want to legally defend against potential copyright/license infringements. I probably won't be able to chime more until the end of this GCD, both from being exhausted trying to follow the discussion but also because I'll be away for a few weeks. [0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#sign-your-work-the-developer-s-certificate-of-origin -- Maxim
