The following ethical guidelines apply generally, but we will primarily implement them when dealing with ethically sensitive issues while making a technical choice. Furthermore, we commit to adapting those ethical principles over time following emerging harms related to the state of the art of the technology in question.  
- **Transparency**: we are committed to being transparent in managing PRs, explaining our choices to users, and making technical decisions.  
- **Consistency**: we are committed to guaranteeing our users the same level of attention in project management, keeping it technically stable and consistent.  
- **Simplicity**: with a desire to make it easy to use and exploit the Diffusers library, we are committed to keeping the project’s goals lean and coherent.  
- **Accessibility**: the Diffusers project helps lower the entry bar for contributors who can help run it even without technical expertise. Doing so makes research artifacts more accessible to the community.  
- **Reproducibility**: we aim to be transparent about the reproducibility of upstream code, models, and datasets when made available through the Diffusers library.  
- **Responsibility**: as a community and through teamwork, we hold a collective responsibility to our users by anticipating and mitigating this technology's potential risks and dangers.
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