Re: Ballet Option "Responsible use of Generative AI"

On Fri, 31 Jul 2026, Russ Allbery wrote:
 
>Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Nothing in this prevents people from making the slop machine ingest or
>> transform works in Debian or sent to Debian mailing lists, which,
>> frankly, is a disturbing lack of honouring consent or the absence
>> thereof.
>
>How would Debian stop someone from doing that? Even if we pass a GR saying

By asking people to behave.

>our GR? Debian has no legal authority to tell anyone to do anything absent

We can at least do something like, I don't know, tell other DDs to
not use the planet-burning slop extruder to "summarise" list eMails
from people who explicitly requested they not do that.

Not that ANYONE would possibly do this in Debian, of course...

bye,
//mirabilos