My views on genAI and F-Droid

This is just a record of a fediverse post that I made today, and my subsequent (collective) response to the main points raised by various people who replied to me. There is a proposal for F-Droid to adopt an interim AI policy, along the lines of Debian’s pro-AI policy. [I am not in favour of this(https:// gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/work_items/699#note_3771382103). In particular, I don’t want to see genAI code in either F-Droid’s own software, or in apps in F-Droid’s repository. Mine is, of course, just one voice. But I will continue to push for human-written FOSS apps, for human users. (Yes, I am an F-Droid board member. Yes, I’m a volunteer, like everyone else. Yes, others seem to have different views. I do what I can.) I have had a lot of replies to this, and I am sorry that I will not be able to reply to each individually. But I can at least try to reply thematically. Again, my personal views. I like genAI / I use genAI Okay. genAI is really good Even if true, on its own, this does…