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

"M. Zhou" <[email protected]> writes:

> I decided to withdraw the proposal A: "AI models released under
> DFSG-compatible license without original training data or program" are
> not seen as DFSG-compliant.

> Based on the overall discussions and feedbacks, we as a community is
> underprepared to vote on this. Even if we vote, it is leading to a less
> convincing result. According to the constitution, I think it is
> completely fine to withdraw the proposal and cancel it temporarily, and
> get back when we are ready for it.

Thank you for all your work on this, and please don't consider this any
sort of fault on your part. This happens a lot; people don't really engage
until a GR is actually proposed, and even with the best of preparations,
sometimes that surfaces a bunch of opinions that didn't show up before
then.

I think this is the right decision and I also hope it doesn't discourage
you from continuing to work on this. I don't think anyone is saying that
we shouldn't have this conversation and a vote, only that we (myself very
much included) are realizing that we hadn't actually thought this through
as thoroughly as we had thought.