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> just that it can be done and that the copyright owner could come along and cause legal problems later. It's absolutely possible to have a fly-by contributor w
by olalonde 3mo ago
> just that it can be done and that the copyright owner could come along and cause legal problems later. It's absolutely possible to have a fly-by contributor who purposefully asks for code that reproduces X/Y/Z without a maintainer knowing about it.
If a contributor doesn't care about submitting copyrighted code, they can do it without an LLM as well.
- dijksterhuis 3mo agoThey could, but an LLM makes it faster and easier to launder code. And makes it harder to detect. Plenty of github accounts now are agent-driven monstrosities just trying to inflate someone's contribution stats etc.