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Debian Votes To Allow "Responsible Use Of Generative AI" (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] tinsuke@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

Alright, what are the alternatives folks?

Gentoo? Gentoo!

(But I'll keep watch to see of they don't revert course because "the models are now too powerful", since it is a policy from 2024)

The policy

Gentoo Council has voted on 2024-04-14 on the following policy:

It is expressly forbidden to contribute to Gentoo any content that has been created with the assistance of Natural Language Processing artificial intelligence tools. This motion can be revisited, should a case be made for such a tool that does not pose copyright, ethical and quality concerns.

This policy affects Gentoo contributions and the official Gentoo projects. It does not prohibit adding packages for AI-related software or software that is being developed with the help of such tools upstream.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 17 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's pretty much the same policy as the Linux kernel, but still disappointing.

I've been dumping things left and right as they decide Claude is their buddy, and that won't stop because the same idiots who dropped decent init systems for that RedHat tech bro's mess decided not to block it.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 hour ago

At least the kernel requires disclosure of AI use. The new Debian "policy" doesn't even require that.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 21 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I trust their judgement here. I hope this is the right call.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

char strawberry = "r"

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

This is disappointing.. It would have been good to have at least one major distro that was AI free

This is a very hard decision to reverse out of if it turns out to be a problem in a few years

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

The good news is that it could roll back to the current stable Trixie at any point

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 22 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Contributors are expected to understand, review, test, and, where appropriate, modify AI-assisted output before incorporating it into Debian. Blindly accepting or uploading AI-generated material without appropriate human review is inconsistent with Debian's established development practices. We [encourage] our contributors to disclose whether a contribution was made with AI [assistance], but do not require them to do so.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 15 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That last bit is a bad idea

[–] dropdrip@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 minute ago

I agree. Disclosure of A.I. use should be mandatory.

My main concern with A.I. use is its ability to hide incompetence. If a new agent introduces code that was entirely written by illegal-software that violates copyright law--A.I.--then that should be made clear, even if competent-programmers review the new inclusion and approve of it. Otherwise people are left with the impression that this new agent is a competent programmer. A.I. use--undisclosed--creates false reputations.

The disclosure being encouraged and not mandatory is purely to protect the egos of programmers currently utilizing A.I. products.

[–] eremophila@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I have 2 installations of debian that will now be deleted.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

In favour of what? The kernel itself is now worked on with ai tooling. I don't see how you can get away from it...

[–] eremophila@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

I had debian installed as back up distro's, just for something that wasn't arch based. The debian partitions were deleted from the arch based distro's installed on both pc's today. I was waiting to see which way debian was heading on this, but was fairly certain they were going to shit due to the choices that were being voted on, and how none of them appeared to be anti-ai. They seemed deliberately verbose knowing that most people scan text at best these days.

Time to look around again I guess, I've never looked into BSD, Hurd, Solaris... https://distrowatch.com/search.php

[–] eremophila@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

by going elsewhere i imagine

linus's will be linus's eh

[–] eremophila@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

please don't downvote me jensen huang/sam altman/pedophile pope trump/alex carp/emperor palpatine/elon musk. omg.

[–] Meh@hexbear.net 3 points 2 hours ago

walter-yell