Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (was: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 07:13:58PM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> I don't think Debian should as an organization pay for LLMs. On the
> contrary I would expect LLM providers to offer API keys for free to
> Debian Developers just like we have other perks listed at
> https://wiki.debian.org/MemberBenefits.
I'd go further and say that the ecological and social costs of most of
the contraptions provided by those providers means that using them in
any way is unethical, and I personally refuse to do so. I recommend
that other people do the same.
(I have less fixed views on locally-trained models, but I see no very
compelling need to find more things to spend energy on even if the costs
are lower.)
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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@debian.org]
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