Re: Ballot option: Call the Free Software community to develop Free AI.

"Theodore Tso" <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:04:08 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 06:14:39PM -0500, Marc Haber wrote:
> That works both ways. If Ai contributed work gets forbidden, persons who
> enjoy the Ai assisted way of developing software will be forced to do that
> work outside Debian. That inevitably will cause some disengagement from
> Debian as well, just not because people feel like disengagng, but because
> their work has become verboten in Debian.

If AI contributed work gets forbidden, and the security report
(perhaps with exploit code, so it's a real 0-day, not something
hypothetical) was generated using AI, then we might not be able to
consume it inside Debian.  If upstream uses an AI-generated patch
which blocks the 0-day, and we can't incorporate that AI-generated
work in debian/patches, that would be.... considerably worse.

     			     	   	  	       - Ted