Re: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian

Joerg Jaspert <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:12:35 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote
Organization Ganneff
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 18033 March 1977, Theodore Tso wrote:

> I would assert that this kind of assistance is not something that we
> would want make verboten, and consider as a violation of our Code of
> Conduct.  Fortunately, since the GR hasn't passed, it's currently not
> a CoC violation.  And I would hope most DD's would agree it would not
> be productive to make this a CoC violation.

*Personally* I have a bad opinion of google and gmail and wonder how 
 anyone can use this thing.

As one of DAMs I dare to say that forbidding this type of usage is 
simply not enforcable. How should we (or anyone) be able to know an LLM 
got used in such a way? It is entirely unrealistic. Sure, there is this 
argument about the social parts about rules and lying to your peers on 
what you did. But trying to enforce a "you used an LLM to help you write 
mail" does not work. (Examples of overly useless long mails with 
bullshit content exists, I know. Those aren't what this is about. Such 
an LLM vomit is easy to refuse now already even without the rules here.)