> LLMs and Code assistants always were primarily a means to copyright-wash all available things so they could be freely incorporated into commercial products wi

> LLMs and Code assistants always were primarily a means to copyright-wash all available things so they could be freely incorporated into commercial products without the problems of having literal copies of stuff you shouldn't have in your code. Great observation! > Of course this has to backfire. I fear, that BigCorp will find ways to make this legal. Facebook is obviously sure that they can. > However, I'm of the opinion that this is a good thing. Copyright is a sham and needs to be abolished. As others have posted, copyright is a great thing! When someone puts a lot of work into something, like writing a book, or drawing a painting (or writing software), they should have strong rights that protect this work. The problem with the current copyright laws are again big corporations like Disney, who fought nail and tooth to prolong those rights into maddening lengths. So I'm honestly a bit flabbergasted. How can you realize that corporations are using LLMs to steal from millions of creative people, are about to make billions of dollars with it and come to the conclusion that this is a great way of dealing with this, because "fuck copyright"?