Debian Project Discards About 25% of the Votes on LLM Slop, Microsoft Votes in the General Resolution (GR)

Debian's General Resolution on AI-assisted coding passed with nearly 450 valid votes out of about 600 cast, with roughly 25% of votes rejected, according to The Register. The resolution allows contributors to use AI tools, but critics, including a reader quoted by the source, question the vote's legitimacy and the influence of GAFAM employees, including Microsoft staff, who participated.

Debian Project Discards About 25% of the Votes on LLM Slop, Microsoft Votes in the General Resolution GR Last month : First Female Debian Project Leader DPL Affirms Low Profile and Inferior Status of Women in GAFAM /n/2026/07/18/First Female Debian Project Leader DPL Affirms Low Profile and .shtml The Debian Project has allowed GAFAM including salaried Microsoft employees to vote in GRs. It moreover lacks diversity. It hardly has any women in it. The "token DPL" wasn't elected, she was merely appointed for putting down her name. How many GAFAM employees voted for slop in Debian? Did any of them disclose the conflict of interest? The Register MS reports that "only 450 of 600 votes in Debian were accepted," a reader has alerted us. Quoting the article in question https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/30/debian-votes-to-let-contributors-code-with-ai/5293421 , " t he rules of the vote saw community members asked to rank each of the eight proposals. Just under 600 people voted, but Debian’s election team rejected many for unspecified reasons, leaving almost 450 valid votes to count." "What kind of filtering is that?" the reader has asked. My guess is, they made the voting process so complicated https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote 002 texte - unlike a straightforward referendum - that some newer voters put it an invalid hence impossible to decipher vote and there was no validation input sanitisation aside in the process to help voters correct their mistakes . As a result, some people probably newer people weren't able to have a say in spite of trying to . They say that for democracy to function access to booths/voting and simplicity in the process are both highly essential so that nobody feels discriminated against, intimidated, uncertain etc. At the end they allowed slop /n/2026/08/29/Debian Plagiarism OK Just be Responsible About It.shtml , which is tragic and causes a lot of anger right now both inside the project and in social control media . Users of Debian GNU/Linux cannot trust the code of Debian no audits; easy to insert back doors https://danielpocock.com/en/category/edward-brocklesby/ and unpaid volunteers like DDs and DMs don't want to babysit botspam, they'd rather interact and work with other human beings. █ top