[arin-ppml] Slow summer....

[Daryll Swer]

> the best arguments if they come from AI

I've yet to see such an incident. And to my knowledge, "AI" isn't publicly
available yet; we only have LLMs.

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Best Regards
Daryll Swer
Website: daryllswer.com
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On Fri, 24 Jul 2026 at 02:33, Mike Burns via ARIN-PPML <arin-ppml at arin.net>
wrote:

> Hi Fernando,
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> I welcome your thoughts.
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> It may get harder and harder to distinguish between polish and outright
> verbatim echoing of AI posts by a human interlocutor.
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> The open mailing list is designed to solicit the best arguments, should we
> ignore the best arguments if they come from AI?
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> It seems likely to be that we will be dealing with this situation at some
> point.
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> Regards,
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> Mike
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> *From:* ARIN-PPML <arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net> *On Behalf Of *Fernando
> Frediani
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 23, 2026 1:49 PM
> *To:* arin-ppml at arin.net
> *Subject:* Re: [arin-ppml] Slow summer....
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> Surely no AI should post in a human discussion mail list. It doesn't make
> much sense
> If people want to use AI to polish their text no problem, as long messages
> are reviewed and sent by humans.
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> Mail list should not be treated a destination for automated systems to
> send message, just for human discussions.
>
> Fernando
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> On 7/23/2026 2:09 PM, Mike Burns via ARIN-PPML wrote:
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> Hello List,
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> Based on a current discussion on the AFRINIC policy development list, I
> wanted to discuss the use of AI to post to policy lists.
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> Because these are open forums handled by email, it is quite trivial for
> any AI to be echoed to the list by a real person, or even post directly in
> the guise of a real person.
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> I have used translators to help me post, I expect more and more will use
> AI to polish, if not create their posts.
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> So simply banning use of AI is not the answer, but it brings up some
> questions.
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> Is this the camel’s nose of AI into human government?
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> Should we empower an AI to post directly, or be callable like ask grok?
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> Should we treat the AI posts just like any other post?
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> I am not discussing abuse of the list through repeated  AI posts restating
> the same argument and I assume lists have existing tools to exclude certain
> posters who do abuse.
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> Any thoughts on using AI on stakerholder governance lists?
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> Regards,
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> Mike
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