Post #1602381

@ehashman I agree that it probably won't be possible to avoid software tainted by LLMs. But Debian can't only be about technical issues. Even this exact post provides plenty of examples that Debian *isn't* just about technical issues. Debian is also about community, and about ethics and freedom. At this point, much of LLM-critique is about ethics. It's about how workers that are being abused to train the models. It's about them systematically undermining free software licenses by feeding them into the LLM grinder as fodder for generating code. As he mentions, it's also about the environment. I hold Debian to a higher standard than others. Perhaps that's unfair. But it's also why I choose Debian. Sure, the distro is excellent on technical merits, but the difference from many others is the community and their thoughtful approaches to ethics and real-world issues. Debian can't dictate what others do. But Debian can lead by example, and make principled stances. I've sort of come to expect that from them. That said, I'm not one to dictate what Debian does. I don't get a vote when it comes to that. But it makes me sad, and I feel a bit hopeless, when even Debian doesn't take a principled stance.