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Debian Votes To Allow "Responsible Use Of Generative AI" (www.phoronix.com)
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[+] -8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (6 children)

Sanity won imo. We can argue all day about what responsible Ai use is, but distro projects without allowing AI use at all and are serious about it are dead in the water. What are they supposed to d do? Disconnect with upstream?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    "wah, they dead in the water if they ban the slop theft machine!"

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    I don't fundamentally disagree with the sentiment, but local models are mostly benign as long as you actually understand the code you're submitting and rewrite it to remove the slop portions. Plus prohibiting it entirely just means people will lie about using LLMs. I do think Debian should have mandated people disclose whether/how AI was used for any given commit tho

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

    What about prohibiting people from looking at the leaked windows source code? It just encourages people to lie about it.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago

    What were they supposed to d do? Disconnect with upstream?

    Use non-slopified alternatives. There are lists such as Open Slopware that document where to get alternatives.

    Or just fork the last non-slopified version and work from there. For already-mature software, should not make that much difference in the short term for a distro that seeks out stable long-term behaviour (things would be vastly different if this was Arch).

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