Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

[Mark Penner]

May 15, 2025 09:10:39 Felix Ernst <felixernst at zohomail.eu>:

> I wouldn't even mind if we went one step further and actively promoted e.g. Plasma as "free of AI". This does not need to be fully true, but this would be more of an activism and marketing angle I would like to see. There is a good chance though that this would not be a good use of our time but it would align with KDE Eco IMO. (I know that there are also great uses of AI, but public messaging needs to be clear and easy to understand, and there is still enough pro-AI marketing out there to the point that taking the opposite stance seems sensible to me.)

I agree with the general idea but I'm not sure "anti-AI" is the best way to present it. It might be better to focus on positive things: present Plasma and other KDE projects as an environmentally friendly and ethical choice. Also AI is kind of a meaningless buzzword at this point. Does anti-spam machine learning count as AI? I'm not a marketer, but that's my two bits.