Group communication is hard

There is an interesting discussion going on in the OSMF run discourse instance on community.osm.org regarding regulation of use of LLMs in communcation there. First a bit of background The OSMF in 2021 introduced a new behavior control framework for the forum and some mailing lists – which i criticized for its vagueness (and resulting subjectivity in implementation – giving space to cultural bias) and its intolerance towards behavior diversity, both culturally and as a result of neurodiversity. Later in 2025 the OSMF introduced an AI policy supplement to those behavior rules which essentially extents the vagueness of the original framework to the field of use of LLMs. These policy documents and their practical application reflect the idea of behavior control as a system of authority where the decision on what behavior is considered acceptable is determined centrally by a group of people (the moderators) and the users of the channels need to trust that these perform their work in a…