On 13/01/26 at 11:53 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: Include git commit id and git tree id in
> *.changes files when [SUMMARY] uploading?"):
> > Assisted by AI, I generated the summary of the discussion below. I
> > reviewed it and it matches my own general understanding of the
> > discussion.
>
> This message was shocking to me.
>
> Generative AI is
> - an environmental disaster
> - a criminal conspiracy (of which Debian is a victim!)
> - a pyramid scheme, stock market bubble, and generally, an investment scam
> - a scheme for undermining and impoverishing workers
> - an act of theft against creators everywhere (including all of us!)
> - a machine for generating plausible-looking misinformation
> - generally, fascist-aligned
> It is a complete disaster from every point of view.
>
> Shame on you.
>
> I regard all generative AI output as memetic pollution.
>
> I will not be reading this "summary". Neither should anyone else.
> (LLMs do not produce summaries, they produce shortenedd texts.)
AFAIK, Debian doesn't have a policy about AI-assisted contributions.
Maybe it should. I personally find it interesting to explore how much it
can help (or not).
I respect that some people do not want to read AI-assisted
contributions, that's why my email started with that disclaimer.
If you want to ban AI-assisted contributions in Debian, maybe you should
propose an official policy about that.
Lucas
PS: I tried to add [SUMMARY] at the end of the Subject, and failed due
to line-wrapping. FTAOD, this was done entirely manually :-)
