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Establishing an etiquette for LLM use on Libera.Chat

by staff

Greetings fellow humans!

For better or for worse, controversially perhaps, we are now immersed in an online landscape laden with LLMs.

This may be a fact that brings you great joy. However, not everyone feels the same way about LLMs. Some folks dislike them for privacy or ethical reasons. Some people just don’t feel good about talking to LLMs without knowing. We want folks in all camps to feel welcome on Libera.Chat.

We believe that the best way to make this happen is to ensure that people are not caught unaware. As such, building on the principles of our public logging policy, staff would appreciate cooperation with these simple guidelines:

While these guidelines are not final, nor enshrined as network policy with exception of training LLMs on channel content, we do have a broad prohibition on antisocial behaviour. We encourage folks to consider whether their application of LLMs is reasonably prosocial or antisocial.