Mostly it's just formalizing of the established status quo. But the changes re: allowing training on chat logs has caused some unintended consequences.
For one, now the classic IRC megahal bots which have been around for decades are technically not allowed unless you get permission from Libera staff (and the channel ops). They are markov chains that continuously train on channel contents as they operate.
But hopefully, as in the past, the Libera staffers will intelligently enforce the spirit of the rules and avoid any silly situations like the above caused by imprecise language.
I strongly believe it should be illegal to post something automatically by an LLM without clearly identifying it as such. I hope countries start passing these laws soon
As far as i can tell, this policy is essentially - don't do anything with an llm that would get you banned if you did it manually as a human.
Now can libera please establish etiquette for channel mods? All the biggest channels have extremely toxic, egotistical mods with god complexes visible from space.
HN would benefit from a specific, explicit policy such as this.