For those who aren’t aware, as I wasn’t, this is coming from the “VP of Community” at the Zig Foundation. So the proposal to soft ban LLMs at Zig Day meetups seems like it has a bit more weight than if it was some random community member.

(I’m not a member of the community, so not fully aware of the dynamics.)

Approaching significant change with humanity asks us to have empathy for many emotions at once. With respect to LLMs & other generative models those include but aren't limited to:

* Excitement from people who are able to make things they could not,

* Fear from people who's livelihoods are threatened,

* Betrayal from artists whose work is being ripped off,

* Alarm from activists looking out for ecosystems & the climate.

Adding to the challenge we have people, corporations, & governments pushing greed, hubris, & dehumanization for various reasons.

This piece does an excellent job laying out its recommendations with sensitivity for people of different perspectives & positions. I very much appreciate that.

>My recommendation is also to not choose an extreme approach (e.g. by completely banning LLM-related discourse) unless you feel very strongly about it.

Organizers are allowed to ban the mention of certain programming topics? I could understand if it was a topic that was adjacent to violence/harassment/sensitive stuff, but come on... are anti-AI groups becoming a cult?

The giant Umarell in the background is a nice piece of furniture.

Edit: I noticed later it was in Milan, I guess it makes perfect sense.

Just ban LLM. It's events for human beings, not LLMs.