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Note for people who just briefly skimmed the site: This is satire.
by ameliaquining 8mo ago
Note for people who just briefly skimmed the site: This is satire.
- adampunk 8mo agoFor now
- schmeichel 8mo agoThank you for pointing that out, I genuinely was scratching my head and questioning if this site was serious.
- chilipepperhott 8mo agoYeah, thank you. I was starting to get a little heated.
- embedding-shape 8mo agoSame, I got as far as "Finally, liberation from open source license obligations." until I went back to the comments.
- frizlab 8mo agohaha did the same. that being said I’m convinced some people do think AI reimplementation actually means cleanroom…
- dcchambers 8mo agoFor now...
- tgtweak 8mo agoThe best satire is that which becomes reality.
- TehCorwiz 8mo agoI would posit that the best satire is that which holds a clear enough mirror to society that people choose for it to not come to pass.
- intrasight 8mo agoBest comment here!
- jajuuka 8mo agoI was wondering. I had heard chardet story and wouldn't be surprised to see others moving into that same space.
- Lalabadie 8mo agoThe situation is a bit too Torment Nexus-y for my comfort, thank you very much
- Habgdnv 8mo agoAt least you think that this is satire, until the author receives a DMCA from one of the big corps saying that he leaked the transcript of their last meeting
- kifler 8mo agoToo late. Someone's senior executive management has probably already seen it and spinning up a new project to implement it.
- civvv 8mo agoLuckily LLM’s are nowhere near capable enough to pull this off for anything other than the likes of isEven()
- lo_zamoyski 8mo agoW.r.t. intent, yes. But w.r.t. content, we are long past a situation where it is unrealistic enough to function as satire. While such tactics would render certain OSS software licenses absurd, the tactic itself, as a means to get around them, is entirely sound. It just reveals the flawed presupposition of such licenses. And I'm not sure there is really any way to patch them up now.
- zozbot234 8mo agoIt would also entirely obviate the need for those very same OSS licenses, if LLMs can simply do a clean-room reimplementation of any copywritten software whatsoever.
- donkeybeer 8mo agoThats a bit more difficult as you have to somehow leak or hack the proprietary code first to train the initial llm.
- kshacker 8mo agoIt will be like Galaxy Quest - they saw the historical records, copied them and then ... still needed humans to help them :)
- Robdel12 8mo agoIt legit got me. An actual "whaaaaaatttt?" out loud and then I had to figure out why it was the top of HN haha.
- TimTheTinker 8mo agoI don't know - if you upload a package.json with any dependencies that map to real npmjs.com packages, it does lead you to a Stripe payment page which appears to be real... and it appears you'd be sending real money. Maybe that's part of the joke, though :)
- andriy_koval 8mo agoits partial satire. I kinda believe Claude/Codex spill lots of OSS code without license attribution for many millions of devs already.
- tonyedgecombe 8mo agoIt wouldn't be funny if it wasn't close to the truth.
- scatbot 8mo agoI know this is satire, but I would wish to see something like this for liberating proprietary & closed-source hardware drivers.
- bananzamba 8mo agoMalus Corporation = EvilCorp