I also failed to follow the logic of that quoted part. Free software is the four freedoms you mentioned - use, study, modify, and redistribute. There is no obl

I also failed to follow the logic of that quoted part. Free software is the four freedoms you mentioned - use, study, modify, and redistribute. There is no obligation to accept anything, for any reason. I don't think the argument that AI is a tool, combined with the disbelief that people would reject a tool due to "the circumstances of the contribution’s creation, and not due to its quality" is a strong argument for broad AI use, because we know examples were many people stopped using high quality tools due to the circumstances of its creation. The Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy was created by the Nazi Eduard Pernkopf and his four Nazi artist assistants. It is a "scientific and artistic masterpiece" ... created as the result of Nazi medical research on the corpses of executed political prisoners, and containing Nazi symbols in the original artwork which were airbrushed out for wider, post-war release. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Pernkopf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Pernkopf Sure, for some the book fundamentally a tool, but "[o]pponents have asserted that any use of the atlas makes the user complicit in Nazi crimes". The Wikipedia entry ends with a quote from Pieter Carstens: "Beautiful anatomical drawings were created, but this was only made possible by the unethical and unlawful procurement of the anatomical remains of murdered victims of an evil Nazi regime–thus beauty and evil were fused. This fusion not only perverts and diminishes the status and content of the Pernkopf Atlas, but also explains why it should be rejected. / [It] should be permitted to show its duplicitous face only rarely and then for very good reason in the teaching of history, medical ethics and medical law so that its lessons will be learned and its history never repeated." This is not a call for a ban of this tool (the atlas), but rather a call for highly limited use, for very specific purposes. Since I think I would be one of those opponents to widespread use of the atlas, you can see how I would factor in "the circumstances of the contribution’s creation", even for a high quality contribution.