Re: A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

2024-05-02 Thread Ansgar 
On Thu, 2024-05-02 at 20:47 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > > t's just another tool that might or might not be non-free like people > > using Photoshop, Google Chrome, Gmail, Windows, ... to make > > contributions. Or a spamfilter to filter out some. > > That's entirely not the point. > > It

Re: A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

2024-05-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, May 02, 2024 at 02:01:20PM -0400, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz a écrit : > > I would like Debian to discuss and decide on the usage of AI-generated content > within the project. Hi Tiago, as a Debian developer I refrain from using commercial AI to genereate code used in my packaging work or

Re: A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

2024-05-02 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
Hi Russ, On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 11:59:10AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Tiago Bortoletto Vaz writes: > > > I personally agree with the author's rationale on the aspects pointed > > out (copyright, quality and ethical ones). But at this point I guess we > > might have more questions than

Re: A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

2024-05-02 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-05-02T16:31:39-0600, Sam Hartman wrote: >> Generative AI tools **produce** derivatives of other people's >> copyrighted works. > >> That said, we already have the necessary policies in place: > > Russ pointed out this is a fairly complicated claim. > > It is absolutely true that

Re: A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

2024-05-02 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Dominik" == Dominik George writes: Dominik> Generative AI tools **produce** derivatives of other people's copyrighted works. Dominik> That said, we already have the necessary policies in place: Russ pointed out this is a fairly complicated claim. It is absolutely true that

Re: A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

2024-05-02 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 08:47:31PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > Hi, > > >It's just another tool that might or might not be non-free like people > >using Photoshop, Google Chrome, Gmail, Windows, ... to make > >contributions. Or a spamfilter to filter out some. > > That's entirely not the

Re: A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

2024-05-02 Thread Mo Zhou
On 5/2/24 14:01, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: You might already know that recently Gentoo made a strong move in this context and drafted their AI policy: - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy - https://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg99042.html People

Re: A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

2024-05-02 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Ansgar" == Ansgar  writes: Ansgar> Hi, Ansgar> On Thu, 2024-05-02 at 14:01 -0400, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: >> I would like Debian to discuss and decide on the usage of AI- >> generated content within the project. Ansgar> It's just another tool that might or might

Re: A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

2024-05-02 Thread Mo Zhou
On 5/2/24 14:47, Dominik George wrote: That's entirely not the point. It is not about **the tool** being non-free, but the result of its use being non-free. Generative AI tools **produce** derivatives of other people's copyrighted works. Yes. That includes the case where LLMs generates

Re: A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

2024-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Tiago Bortoletto Vaz writes: > I personally agree with the author's rationale on the aspects pointed > out (copyright, quality and ethical ones). But at this point I guess we > might have more questions than answers, that's why I think it'd be > helpful to have some input before suggesting any

Re: A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

2024-05-02 Thread Dominik George
Hi, >It's just another tool that might or might not be non-free like people >using Photoshop, Google Chrome, Gmail, Windows, ... to make >contributions. Or a spamfilter to filter out some. That's entirely not the point. It is not about **the tool** being non-free, but the result of its use

Re: A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

2024-05-02 Thread Ansgar 
Hi, On Thu, 2024-05-02 at 14:01 -0400, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > I would like Debian to discuss and decide on the usage of AI- > generated content within the project. It's just another tool that might or might not be non-free like people using Photoshop, Google Chrome, Gmail, Windows, ... to

A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

2024-05-02 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
Hi, I would like Debian to discuss and decide on the usage of AI-generated content within the project. I fear that we are already facing negative consequences in some areas of Debian as a result of its use. If I happen to be wrong, I'm still afraid that it will happen in a very short time. You