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AI code is theft too. A lot of the code it's trained on is copyleft. If you use code from copyleft projects, your project is copyleft, you might just not know i
by __loam 3y ago
AI code is theft too. A lot of the code it's trained on is copyleft. If you use code from copyleft projects, your project is copyleft, you might just not know it. AI coding systems like copilot benefit hugely from the FOSS ecosystem, but they launder away the license which means they're not contributing anything back to FOSS.
None of this is knee-jerk. These systems alienate massive amounts of labor from the people and communities that did that labor. There is a huge amount of risk involved with mass adoption of this technology that most people on hackernews seem content to either ignore or say it's not relevant to the discussion like you are.