Debian Developers Begin Voting Over LLM Usage Within The Project

Debian developers have been considering a general resolution over LLM usage within the project. After collecting a variety of proposals, voting has now commenced for Debian developers to decide how comfortable they are with AI / Large Language Model contributions in the project or not.


The choices being considered for this Debian general resolution (GR) include:

[ ] Choice 1: Ban LLM contributions from Debian via Social Contract
[ ] Choice 2: Allow AI-Assisted Contributions with conditions
[ ] Choice 3: Reject LLMs as far as practical, update Code of Conduct
[ ] Choice 4: Accept AI contributions for Debian specific work
[ ] Choice 5: Responsible Use of Generative AI
[ ] Choice 6: A cautious approach to generative AI
[ ] Choice 7: Debian is created by humans
[ ] Choice 8: Avoid the use of LLM: climate destruction is a deal breaker
[ ] Choice 9: None of the above

All the details on each of those choices can be found via the Debian.org vote page.

Additional details in this mailing list post with the voting details on the general resolution. The voting period began at midnight and is set to run through end of day 28 August.