LLM policy

[Regina Obe]

> Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> writes:
> 
> > Wow.  I feel unwelcome in this community!
> 
> What I mean is I feel I've just been told that I'm violating commmunity
> standards by being unwilling to grant computers the same rights as people.
> 

I wouldn't say violating.  I'd just say a difference of opinion here.
You assume everyone agrees with you in this, Darafei and I are telling you
we don't.

We all have rights to our opinions and if our opinions disagree someone is
bound to feel uncomfortable.
I'm sorry we made you feel uncomfortable.

> The overall situation of discusssing AI in the context of a code of
conduct is
> uncomfortable,

Code of conduct is always an uncomfortable thing to discuss cause it
highlights our prejudices and how we don't all think alike.
The way I see it, the issue people have with AI is the following:

1) AI is disruptive when it creates garbage someone needs to review
2) AI might provide pull requests that violate copyright

There are probably some others but that is my main issue with any AI when it
does that. 
It is violating someone else's needs / etc for very concrete reasons more
than it is adding value to others.

When you start micromanaging what should be considered "everyone", you start
getting into 
Dangerous territory such as "Your guide dog is not welcome" even though you
need it to guide you around, therefore "you are not welcome because you need
a guide dog"

Judge the acts, not the thing.  

We have a code of conduct because we try to make sure as best we can that
one's needs don't violate another's.
Sometimes those are in conflict mostly because of someone's internal
perspective about things and unfortunately there is nothing that
can be done about that. We have to choose sides.

Greg I hope you realize we do value your opinions very much even when we
don't agree with them.  So don't let a difference of opinion make you feel
unwelcome.

Thanks,
Regina