Thanks cfcurtis, we can actually see from the Blender discussion above that the major issues are not technical, but political and deeply involve the reputation of the project. This is why this issue is for the PLC and not for the dev team itself. There is a political message being presented when an organisation like Fedora or Blender states that they are neutral on the behaviour of contributors. If all of our contributors were nasty racists, but hid it, would we make a document saying that racists are welcome to contribute as long as they disclose what kind of racist they are? They're going to be racists anyway, and the "cat is out of the bag" and new developers might not want to contributor to an anti-racist project so we better just say it's ok. This might sound absurd, that a social bigotry can't possibly relate to a technology; but all speech is political. Even what we say through the technology we make and how we make it. These generative tools as they stand today are anti-social, anti-democratic and anti-worker in ways that cause just as much harm as bigotries and other things we forbid. The only difference is that their harms are hidden from us, they effect people out there in the wide world and not our friends here inside the project. Is that enough? ... [continues in link]