Re: Proposal -- Interpretation of DFSG on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models

Matthias Urlichs <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:25:00 +0200

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On 22.04.25 22:59, Ansgar 🙀 wrote:
> But the practical effects of passing the GR is probably (among other
> things):
>
> a) Removal of OCR software (like tesseract[1])
> b) Removal of image recognition software (like opencv[2])
> c) Possibly removal of text-to-speech software (like festival[3] or
> flite[4])

You might want to write a counter-proposal B, then.

Or even a proposal C that's more nuanced.

I mean, with the right prompt you can get many AI models to regurgitate 
some of the texts or images they've been trained with. TTBOMK it's 
mostly-impossible to do that with Tesseract or OpenCV.

NB, do we really need to *remove* these packages? or maybe just move 
them to contrib, and their model files to non-free?

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