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Debian Votes To Allow "Responsible Use Of Generative AI"
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this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2026
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No online services? So you can use AI to generate code, but only garbage local AIs (assuming you don't have a ton of RAM)?
This seems like the weakest possible decision they could've made.
It's open source software. I'm not saying security isn't a concern, but this is just stupid.
If you're not going to ban AI then you should at least take advantage of models that are more reliable and produce higher quality output.
It looks like their point is that they don't want Debian's codebase to be used to train corporate AI models, and almost all the proposals seem to agree on that at the very least. I feel like a required AI disclosure would have been better, but what do I know, I'm not a Debian contributor
You are not supposed to use online LLMs for undisclosed security stuff; there is no general ban of online services if you can take responsibility for the stuff it produces for the contributor. At least, this is how I read the general resolution.
This is one more reason, that using Debian as my main distro was a good choice.
Ah my bad, that makes more sense.