Re: Draft permissive ballot option (was: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian)

Marc Haber <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:24:32 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 02:15:57AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 09:39:57PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>>I do not think that is fine, though. Why would I put a sound suggestion on
>>the bottom of the pile or bin it just because it was written with the wrong
>>editor or using a mail service I don't like?
>
>This is a false equivalence, again.
>
>Sending mail via gmail or using vim to write your code don't
>materially affect the quality of that code. Neither are likely to
>cause hallucinations in the code, or to use vast amounts of resources
>in its production. (etc.)

I would rather drop a message sent from gmail, as it is very likely 
spam.

A well-draftet LLM-assisted contribution is free from hallucinations 
since the person submitting it has checked the references.

It is not fair to assume that everybody using LLMs to help with things 
blindly cuts&pastes LLM output without verification.

Greetings
Marc