It is nice to see some #FOSS projects decide to ask their communities significant questions before taking major action. The current big example is, of course, whether the project should accept, limit, or ban contributions created with LLMs ("AI").
However, too often those projects try to collect opinions using outside services - like Google forms (or whatever they call it). By doing so, you're instantly cutting off responses from that chunk of your community who are focused on privacy, anti-fascist, anti-billionaire, or various other topics which are hugely represented in the FOSS community in general. So you're collecting responses from a horribly biased sample.
In this case, Google is a pro-fascist, privacy-destroying, gatekeeping, billionaire-controlled USA corporation that is helping to destroy the open web to build its own walled garden a la Apple. They're also a huge pusher of "AI", and are demolishing small sites' business models by stealing their content to create "AI answers" in search without sending any traffic to the sites they're stealing from.
Can you see how asking people whether you should allow LLM contributions via a Google form would skew the results quite badly?
Yes, #Audacity, I'm looking at you today.
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