Hi Nathanael > On 5 Jun 2026, at 11:11, Nathanael Ritz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > This has been a fascinating discussion so far. > > If a document so filled with AI-generated synthesis were successfully adopted > by a working group, it would still need to proceed through the normal means > of accepting feedback from participants and elicit rough consensus, right? > The document would have to survive WGLC, successive AD evaluation, and onward > to IETF Last Call, before finally facing IESG evaluation. Because of that > process, the finished work would surely be so significantly impacted by > successive community input that it would almost certainly be utterly > transformed into something demonstrably and creatively shaped by human minds. > Would this not render the question of AI origin a non-issue by the time of > RFC publication? > > At least, it certainly seems to me that it would be a truly bizarre situation > if a significant portion of an otherwise publishable draft survived all the > way through where enough noticeable AI-generated text would remain to > actually represent a significant copyright issue.
While this is a possible scenario, I think it unlikely that AI would only be used at the first stage of this lengthy process and we would not reach a point where it is used every step of the way. Jay > > Kind regards, > > Nathanael > -- Jay Daley IETF Executive Director [email protected] -- rswg mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
