On Thursday, August 13, 2026 9:48:37 AM Mountain Standard Time Theodore Tso wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 06:28:19PM -0500, Enrico Zini wrote: > > My take is that you keep ignoring people who repeatedly tell you that > > using LLMs to contribute to this specific discussion feels > > disrespectful to a significant part of its participants. > > My take is the constantly changing, strident positions of people who > are anti-LLM (it's about environment! even if it's not significant, > it's a position statement! it's about copyright! but it's even just > adding an unlock, if it comes from an LLM, it's evil and should be a > violation of the code of conduct, even if we can't tell if the > one-line change came from a human or not!, etc.) is similarly > disrespectful to the intelligence of the people in the debate.
I would like to politely disagree with the above paragraph. It is true that different people have different concerns about AI. I do not personally have all the same concerns that other people have, but all the ones I have seen expressed in these discussions are valid concerns of those who hold them and should be listened to with respect. While one person might say that their concerns are about copyright and someone else might say that their concerns are not about copyright but about resource usage, these aren’t the same person shifting their concerns around in a “constantly changing” way. Rather, it is an indication that there are many facets to this discussion and different people have concerns about different things. We have probably never dealt with such a complex issue in Debian in the sense of the number of facets that are interwoven, which is why we have never had a GR with so many seconded choices. So, even though I do not share all of the concerns of everyone who has participated in this discussion, I do not feel that anyone has been "disrespectful to the intelligence of the people in the debate” with the concerns they have raised (I do feel some of the responses have been disrespectful). Standing up for the right of every member of the Debian community to voice their concerns without being attacked for them feels even more important to me than if my preferred option wins the GR. -- Soren Stoutner [email protected]
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