On Fri, 31 Jul 2026, Russ Allbery wrote: >Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> writes: > >> Nothing in this prevents people from making the slop machine ingest or >> transform works in Debian or sent to Debian mailing lists, which, >> frankly, is a disturbing lack of honouring consent or the absence >> thereof. > >How would Debian stop someone from doing that? Even if we pass a GR saying
By asking people to behave. >our GR? Debian has no legal authority to tell anyone to do anything absent We can at least do something like, I don't know, tell other DDs to not use the planet-burning slop extruder to "summarise" list eMails from people who explicitly requested they not do that. Not that ANYONE would possibly do this in Debian, of course... bye, //mirabilos -- https://toot.mirbsd.org/@mirabilos/statuses/01KNQD9RNZM1Z2A61AZHG857MP long list of references on why “AI”/LLMs are bad for everyone
