<div dir="ltr">I did notice a recent poster was using a latin parody of my name. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 6:00\u202fAM Nick Vidal <<a href="mailto:nick.vidal@opensource.org">nick.vidal@opensource.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>We would like to apologize for the various emails that were sent recently, which were found to be AI generated.</div><div><br><div>We do not allow posts generated by AI without careful review from the author and will reject posts where we suspect that an AI has been responsible for all or most of a message.</div></div><div><br></div><div>The use of AI to help members to better understand and respond to a complex topic, especially when the discussions are in a foreign language and very legalese, is appropriate for the purpose of making the discussions more accessible.</div><div><br></div><div>However, we have identified that license-discuss and license-review are being used as a proof-of-concept to demonstrate that an AI system can autonomously engage and even draft an open source license for review.</div><div><br></div><div>We believe that this behavior goes against the "Respect time and attention" from our <a href="https://opensource.org/codeofconduct" target="_blank">Code of Conduct</a>. We'll be updating it to better reflect the use of AI.</div><div><br></div><div>We would like to thank one of our members who provided valuable feedback on this matter. <span style="background-color:transparent">We'll share more details soon.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you all for your comprehension.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>OSI Moderators</div></div>
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